AN ALLOA charity worker has been sacked after £12,000 to help the disabled went missing. The action was taken against Lesley Talbot, 42, after an audit at the Friends of ALLOA Centre last month.

A HUGE increase in care charges for residents of old folks’ homes has been defended by council officials amid accusations of a ‘funding fiasco’.

ANOTHER woman has come forward to claim she was the victim of a sex attack by a social worker. The Paisley Daily Express revealed last month that a man had resigned from his post with Renfrewshire Council’s social work department just days before he was due to face his bosses at a disciplinary hearing.

A NEW film about the UK’s foster care industry, which premiered at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival, is set to screen worldwide with the aim of influencing the debate on reforming the care system.

A care-home worker in Aberdeen has been suspended following allegations he sexually assaulted a resident, it emerged last night.

CRUNCH talks are due to take place to discuss the funding of an Inverness care home which provides a specialist service for people with dementia.

AUTISTIC adults in Inverness continue to feel abandoned because support services promised by Highland Council almost two years ago are still not in place.

THOUSANDS of grandparents who become family carers are the victims of a postcode lottery in the allowances they receive.

EAST Ayrshire Council has been praised in an in-depth report into its social work services. The Social Work Inspection Agency (SWIA) published the report based on an inspection from August to November 2008.

A COUNCIL bill for kinship carers is set to more than treble. That was the warning yesterday from social work bosses if a benefits scheme is opened up to everyone who could be eligible.