Scotland’s Children’s Minister Adam Ingram is to visit one of the country’s leading residential schools for male children and youths.

SEVENTY-FIVE elderly residents are facing being made homeless after the company that owns their nursing homes went into administration.

The Scottish NHS could face making more cut-backs than its counterpart in England as the impact of the asault on the UK deficit bites, a think tank report has warned

A council has highlighted its area’s natural landscape in an advert seeking a new head of social work services. On its website, Highland said the region was one of the most sought after places to live.

AN INVESTIGATION has been carried out after it emerged council social workers visited the house of a drug addict the day before she fed a two-month-old baby methadone.

AN ABERDEEN nurse has been struck off after lying to colleagues and a health watchdog about a care home resident’s back injury. Deepa Francis was on duty at the Tor-na-dee care home when a patient fell.

An online database that will allow NHS staff to share information has been unveiled by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon.

A NEW report into Dundee’s child protection services has concluded the public can now have “much higher” confidence in the system following a raft of improvements in the wake of the Brandon Muir scandal.

Ventilation systems at a care home where 14 elderly ­residents died in a fire were badly designed, a building control expert has told the inquiry into the tragedy.

The Highland social work chief’s early retirement will cost the council almost £60,000. The arrangements were thrashed out in private at the end of last month’s full council meeting in Inverness.