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

Child protection services in Dundee are more robust now than when toddler Brandon Muir was killed by his mother’s lover, the city’s director of social work has said, writes Stefan Morkis.

Council leaders in Scotland’s capital are considering axing 300 jobs as part of a cost-cutting drive, it has been revealed.

The SNP group on Highland Council last night said they were incensed by the “deletion” of three care workers posts at an Inverness day centre for vulnerable adults.

PLANS for a new £4.5million homeless hostel in Aberdeen city centre will be discussed by councillors next week.

NEW technology is being used to support vulnerable people in Forres and the rest of Moray in their choice to live safely at home.

ALMOST twice as many pensioners in the Lothians are admitted to hospital with malnutrition than anywhere else in Scotland, figures have shown.

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.