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.

THE Harry Walker Day Centre in Airdrie was officially opened recently by North Lanarkshire Depute Provost Jim Robertson. A plaque was unveiled at the Waddell Street centre, which offers day services for older people, and a special celebratory cake was cut to mark the event.

A child protection plan drawn up following a scathing report by government inspectors has been approved by Dundee councillors.

HIGHLAND Council has launched an investigation into allegations that staff have been abusing the facilities at one of their residential care homes in the strath.