The first disclosures have been made to parents and carers in Tayside about registered sex offenders who have access to their children.

THE Scottish National Party have revealed their candidate who will contest the Livingston seat at the general election. Lis Bardell is a retired former project manager for Scottish children’s charity Aberlour.

A STATE-of-the-art care home earmarked for land at Alloa Park has been given the go-ahead by council planners.
 

A NEW unit for homeless people in Rutherglen and Cambuslang opened in Halfway last week. For South Lanarkshire Council and the Salvation Army joined forces to create the new service at the Eva Burrows Centre.

Free care for the elderly, the so-called “dream ticket” of old age which has been available in Scotland since 2002, can boast uneasily that it is both a defining policy of devolution and yet also one of the most contentious.

The Scottish Government has been accused of forcing local authorities back to the ‘Thatcher-era’ of front-line services cuts.

A childcare service described as being vital in allowing parents to work is under threat of closure – which could leave families who depend on it “facing an abyss”.

People with disabilities in Edinburgh have won their battle to keep their carers. The council had proposed putting the services for vulnerable adults out to competitive tendering.

Moray’s community care division has been praised for strictly controlling its £38million budget. Community services boss Sandy Riddell told the health and social care services committee yesterday that his 2009-10 budget was in a “strong position”.

A CHARITY-RUN day centre for people with mental health problems in Aberdeen could face closure after councillors slashed its funding.