Councillors have thrown out plans to increase the size of a proposed care home for elderly people by a third, amid claims that there had been inadequate consultation and research.

Frontline clerical/admin workers in Glasgow council’s social work department began an all out indefinite strike action on 1 July. The dispute is over the failure of the council to pay the 400 workers a ‘working context and demands’ payment under a new pay and grading scheme.

A veteran councillor has voiced fears over the number of youngsters being taken into care in the north-east after new figures revealed almost 250 are being looked after by Aberdeenshire Council at Banff, Fraserburgh and Peterhead.

It’s a very good start, says Lorne Crerar, of his assault on the Byzantine organic complexity of the bodies which regulate Scotland’s public services. “It’s almost more than I could have hoped for.”

Plans for a £95million development of mental health services in Tayside have taken a step forward with the award of the project’s contract.

Scotland’s largest local authority has pledged to spend £8m on nine new build children’s homes, as it aims to modernise its care of youngsters and put to bed the controversy over the infamous Kerelaw home.

A SPECIALIST care service for people with dementia in Inverness is facing a crippling £110,000 deficit this year — all because Highland Council refuses to pay its share.

The opposition SNP group complained yesterday that Highland Council’s home care and personal care services were being “privatised” by the multi-party coalition running the authority.

COUNCILLORS will hear today that health and social services in the Borders are sitting on a time bomb because of a dramatic predicted increase in the number of elderly people in the region.

The future of a scheme which uses technology to help some of the most vulnerable people in the community is to be decided by Dundee City Council.