A new £2.65m child protection unit for Dundee is to be built at Kings Cross Hospital. It will replace the existing unit at Seymour Lodge and house staff involved in child protection from the city council’s social work department, Tayside Police and NHS Tayside.

A threatened support service for adults with learning needs has gained a stay of execution after a placard-carrying protest by a group of vulnerable people in the Western Isles.

Evacuation plans were missed out of a safety report produced for the owners of a care home where 14 elderly residents were killed in a fire, the inquiry into the tragedy has heard.

What needs to be done for Scotland to have a social service workforce fit for 2020? This is just one of the key questions that 200 delegates will explore at the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) Conference  20:20 Vision tomorrow (Friday 19 February 2010).

A project to help men find jobs in female dominated sectors like health and social care has won the backing of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust in Scotland. 

Safety catches on fire doors in a Lanarkshire nursing home where 14 residents died in a blaze had been removed, an inquiry has been told.

Older people in Aberdeenshire may have to pay more for their residential care from April. An Aberdeenshire Council committee will be asked to back plans to increase some social work charges when members meet tomorrow.

A NURSE found guilty of assaulting elderly residents at a care home was yesterday branded “a disgrace to the profession”, but narrowly escaped jail.

Scottish police and courts have failed to ban a single child sex offender from travelling abroad to engage in child sex tourism.

MONTHLY audits into child protection investigations at Moray Council and the addition of eight more social workers have improved the local authority’s service after a damning inspection last year, according to a report.