A new management post costing £25,000 to set up and run is to be created to try to tackle a projected £3.4m overspend in a social work budget.

THE West Lothian branch of Dyslexia Scotland have moved to a new home in a bid to encourage more people to their meetings. The organisation, which had previously met at Dechmont Community Hall, will now hold their meetings at West Lothian College.

INVERNESS councillor Peter Corbett broke away from the administration yesterday when he stood up and refused to spend £25,000 of taxpayer’s money on promoting a senior social work officer to ease the workload of one of the authority’s most highly-paid directors.

The mother of a six-year-old boy who was subjected to what a judge described as “truly appalling” abuse from a man she had regarded as a close friend said yesterday that her child had been “shaped and moulded” for life by the experience.

Relatives of people who use centres for adults with learning disabilities have criticised proposals to close a number of them in southern Scotland.

Social care charity Quarriers has today come to an agreement with its 2,000 staff about proposed changes to their terms and conditions.

PLANS to spend £30million tackling child neglect in Glasgow have been welcomed by children’s welfare campaigners. The city’s director of public health has announced a series of new measures aimed at protecting children at risk of abuse as a result of poverty or parental drug and alcohol abuse.

The University of Edinburgh has awarded the Scottish musician Annie Lennox an honorary degree in a ceremony at the Playfair Library.

UNION leaders have voiced concerns that Highland Council wants to spend £25,000 of tax-payers’ money on easing the workload of one of its most highly-paid council officers so she can continue to represent a national organisation.

SOCIAL work boss Andrew Lowe has acknowledged that the home care service provided by Scottish Borders Council to a 101-year-old Kelso woman “has not been acceptable”.