A NEW team of officials from the city council, Tayside Police and NHS Tayside is to be set up in response to a scathing report on child protection services in Dundee.

A man convicted of murdering his baby daughter in a “vicious attack” has been jailed for a minimum of 16 years.

CHILDREN whose sleep is disturbed are more likely to develop drug and alcohol problems in later life, according to a new study.

Staff employed within the largest of Glasgow City Council’s hived-off companies will have their hours and salaries drastically cut or face as many as 800 redundancies.

Bosses from CrossReach the Social Care Council of the Church of Scotland met with residents, relatives and staff last night to discuss a proposed scheme to refurbish one of its care homes after planning permission for a new building was refused by Aberdeenshire Council.

THE SNP is accusing the Lib Dem led Highland Council administration of trying to privatise Grant House and other care homes in the region through the back door.

PLANS for a £110million emergency care centre in Aberdeen took a major step forward yesterday when the NHS Grampian board approved the business case for the project.

A FRAUDSTER who befriended a nursing home resident to steal her cash was jailed for nine months yesterday. Cleaner Julie Lamb, 35, stole the pensioner’s PIN and bank card while working at Aberdeen’s Rubislaw Care Home last year.

FAMILIES in Angus were told about sex offenders who had access to their children on four occasions after the launch of a pilot disclosure scheme in September last year.

Scotland’s first ever suicide prevention advert has been broadcast on television. The advertisement shows a withdrawn young workman choking up the word suicide on to a pub table after a day at work in a warehouse.