Child protection workers in Dundee took three weeks to hold an “urgent case conference” into the case of Brandon Muir, the toddler killed by his mother’s drug addict partner, a report on the events surrounding the tragedy said yesterday. By that time, the 23 month-old child was dead.

DUNDEE’S DIRECTOR of social work Alan Baird said his staff have been exonerated by yesterday’s reports into the killing of Brandon Muir and that he will not resign from his post.

SOCIAL care services in Clackmannanshire are improving according to a report to councillors last week.

A social worker in Aberdeen has been struck off the register after a hearing into accusations she mishandled cases involving vulnerable children.

OPPOSITION councillors called for an investigation into continued overspending by Falkirk Council’s social work department.

A former Aberdeen social worker has appeared at a disciplinary hearing to face a series of accusations linked to the care of 12 vulnerable children in the city.

A former Aberdeen social worker accused of a series of “failures” involving the care of 12 vulnerable children has claimed she was undermined and bullied by her local authority supervisors.

Scotland’s justice minister Kenny MacAskill has praised the community service scheme operated by the social work service in Shetland.

The number of adults in Scotland diagnosed with learning disabilities has increased by 10% in a year, according to a new report.

A partnership aimed at giving disabled people better access to justice will see Scotland’s legal sector team up with disability organisations.