Half of Scotland’s top local authority officials fear that up to 22,000 council jobs could be lost as a result of public spending cuts.

Fife Council has been accused of abandoning housebound, elderly and disabled people just days before its shopping, pensions and prescriptions collection services are axed due to budget cuts.

A political row erupted last night as bed blocking returned to the north and north-east. The number of patients still in hospital six weeks after being ready for discharge increased from zero in April to 12 at the time of the July census.

Angus Council has hit back at suggestions there are numerous problems related to volunteering within its social work and health department — by pinpointing a new report which praises management within the service.

A CONTROVERSIAL overhaul of the way disabled people are cared for in Edinburgh is to be relaunched, with the council vowing to put the harshest critics of the care and support tender at the centre of designing the new system.

Aberdeenshire Council’s housing and social work service lodged plans with the authority’s planning department for the care complex in School Road, Stonehaven, last month. The application has attracted 23 letters

A HARD-fought campaign to build a new health centre came to an end when Scotland’s health secretary officially opened its doors.

AN ABERDEEN social work boss is facing trial accused of assaulting a woman twice in two separate incidents, the Evening Express can reveal.

Aberdeenshire Council has begun searching for a developer to build a £7million “care village” in a north-east town.

ELDERLY residents living in Grant House and the Wade Centre have finally been given assurances by Highland Council they can remain in their present homes for a long time to come.