Voluntary care organisations across Scotland are to receive funding to help meet the cost of staff training and development, Minister for Children and Early Years Adam Ingram announced today.

ALMOST 70,000 Scots could be forced into poverty if a benefit for disabled people is axed a government minister has warned.

Plans for a merger of health and social care for a third of the country’s population and a joint approach to dealing with waste will take their first steps forward today when west of Scotland council leaders and chief executives meet to begin examining an overhaul of public services.

A radical shake-up in Highland social work will mean more – or fewer – frontline care staff, depending which political party you listen to.

A charity that supports people with learning disabilities across Aberdeenshire has been given £20,000 by the Scottish Government.

Thousands of adults with autism are missing out on vital services because of a disjointed approach to the condition, claims an MSP who wants to introduce a national autism strategy.

Aberdeen City Council’s social care and wellbeing department has been told to cut costs as it is £4.7 million over budget for the current financial year.

HIGHLAND Council will have to find an extra £100,000 to refurbish its fire-damaged Lochbroom House care home at Ullapool. The work has already cost £1.3million.

The Highland social work service is in chaos, according to the council’s opposition SNP group, which has condemned further radical plans for reform.

Alcohol misuse could cost every adult in Scotland about £900 each year, according to a new report.