Almost 200 Angus children — including several under the age of one — have been victims of sex crimes since the start of 2008.

The slow recovery in Scotland’s jobs market has gone into reverse, according to a survey of recruitment companies.

New figures have shown almost 90 per cent of Scots young carers feel that their schools and GPs do nothing to support them – and that’s despite the fact that Scotland’s carers and young carers save the public purse more than £7.6 billion a year.

The hearing into a blaze at a care home which claimed the lives of 14 elderly residents has finished taking evidence.

The number of 18-24 year olds claiming Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) for over 6 months has increased in 20 of Scotland’s local authorities since last year and fallen in only 7 according to a TUC analysis published ahead of the latest ONS unemployment statistics today (Wednesday).

FORRES respite centre Taigh Farrais is to be taken over by Moray Council. Councillors made the decision at a meeting of the health and social care services committee last Wednesday, agreeing that it was the best way to secure the facility’s future.

A Moray playgroup specialising in care for young children with additional support needs is struggling to find enough funding.

NORTH Lanarkshire Council is to cease admissions to a Motherwell care home as they don’t wish to spend money modernising the facility.

Scottish Social Networks in partnership with the Rock Trust and Glasgow School of Social work, has been awarded funding from the Big Lottery Fund to conduct research into the impact of housing support services working with those affected by homelessness to build positive social networks.

Foster care services in the Highlands are dealing with a “marked increase” in babies from drug-abusing families.