PLANS to build a multi-million pound care home in a Scottish town have prompted calls for local authorities to prove their projects are value for money.

Care providers throughout the Highlands are being invited to attend an event in Inverness highlighting a new, flexible way of providing social care services, which puts the person receiving care more in control.

A new centre designed to offer adults with complex learning difficulties the chance to meet new people and take a break in new surroundings has opened its doors in Edinburgh.

BASW Scotland has raised concerns that proposed legislation that would allow people to request an assisted death lacks safeguards.

ARGYLL and Bute’s foster care strategy is working. Since the scheme was introduced in 2008, the number of foster carers has increased dramatically.

THE Assynt Centre, earmarked for closure earlier this year as a result of swingeing local authority budget cuts, has been given a new lease of life.

A MOTHERWELL care home for the elderly appears set to be axed by North Lanarkshire Council.

The number of Angus children being placed on the Child Protection Register has risen over the past year and is now above the national average — with parental substance abuse a factor in 80% of cases.

The leading Scottish children’s charity, Aberlour, has warned the UK coalition government that children may be the unintended victims of proposals to withdraw benefits to drug-dependent parents who do not agree to undergo treatment.

People who have sustained brain damage as a result of injury or previous alcohol use are missing out on the opportunity to recover because of missed diagnoses and a lack of specialist care and treatment, according to a new report from the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.