A SOCIAL worker who was responsible for the welfare of some of Clydebank’s most vulnerable children is facing serious allegations of misconduct.

A critical report says Stirling Council needs to make important changes to its social care delivery. The Social Work Inspection Agency report said the council needed to improve services for children, the elderly and the disabled.

Police in Scotland have brought almost 500 rape charges against children and teenagers under the age of 18 in the past five years.

George Galloway has lent his support to a new government vetting system for those working with youngsters – and said that he himself was a victim of child abuse.

One of Scotland’s biggest charities, which cares for vulnerable children, has threatened to dismiss all of its 2000 workers unless they agree to cuts in wages and conditions, according to a trade union.

An independent report into the death of 23-month-old Brandon Muir is to be made public within days of it being received, Dundee City Council has said.

THE DEATH of a newborn baby prompted social workers to take her older sibling away from their drug abusing parents. They removed the toddler from a house in Dumfries just hours after her younger sister died.

CONSTRUCTION work is now complete on West Lothian’s new civic centre. And to mark the end of the building phase of the £53 million building, representatives from the organisations which will use the building, attended the official ‘topping out’ to mark the completion of the building stage.

A shortage of therapy services is leaving the victims of child sex abuse struggling to recover from their ordeal, a charity has claimed.

A new facility to help women and children affected by domestic violence has opened in Glasgow. It is the first of its kind in Scotland and will offer individual flats and communal facilities including a therapeutic room and creche.