Glasgow City Council is calling on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to rethink controversial changes to benefits for disabled people which it claims will cost the city £700,000 a year.

A protest march is being planned for Fort William amid fears proposals to build five new care homes in the Highlands will be dropped.

The deputy manager of a care home faces the sack after allegedly turning up for work while drunk. The official has been suspended from duty at the council-run Bonnyton House in Busby amid claims that it’s the second time he’s been involved in a drink-related incident.

PARENTS in Kirkcaldy have been reassured following a decision to close popular day care services for pre-school children in the town.

FURIOUS residents have hit out at council chiefs for closing down a support centre. The West Johnstone Drop-In Centre, in the Howwood Road housing estate, was popular with young people and was also a place where parents could go for support.

Scotland’s system which examines the perpetrator and the victim might be better for handling cases of pre-teen crime writes Douglas Balloch

Aberdeen’s social work chief has praised staff for turning around the city’s community service system less than a year after it was criticised by a sheriff.

A DISABILITY forum which gave advice to Rutherglen and Cambuslang residents has been forced to shut down after funding was withdrawn.

Police have arrested more than 2,400 people over two years in the latest anti-gang drive. And, through the Gangs Task Force, they claim to have taken significant steps towards ridding Glasgow of territorial violence.

At least 6% of the workforce at the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration will be axed this year despite it facing a record workload and new complex reforms.