Urgent action should be taken to protect the human rights of people with dementia in care homes, a charity says. The call from Alzheimer Scotland came as two watchdogs published a report after visiting 30 care homes and interviewing 1,335 residents.

A new specially designed child and family centre is to be built in Drumchapel in Glasgow. Nearly £6million is to be invested in the centre which will offer a one-stop-shop combination of services for families with disabled children.

A Dundee nurse has been suspended after allegations he abused elderly patients. David Mutty, 59, worked part-time at a private nursing home in the city as well as full-time at an NHS Tayside hospital caring for dementia patients.

INVERCLYDE Council has announced that suspended Corporate Director of Education and Social Care, Ian Fraser, is to take early retirement.

A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the deaths of 14 people in a care home fire after a bid to prosecute its owners collapsed, it was announced today.

Patchy and uncoordinated mental health services are not supporting over 13,000 people in Scotland diagnosed with epilepsy and mental illness. Mapping current service provision is vital to meet their needs-and Epilepsy Scotland plans to do just that.

The residents of a Dundee care home earmarked for closure are no nearer to finding out when or where they will be re-housed — almost two weeks after being told of its imminent closure (writes April Mitchinson).

Police in Fife say that they believe a fire at an old folks home in the town of Benarty was started deliberately. The alarm was raised at around 3am on Tuesday morning, and officers at the nearby police station saw that an extension – currently under construction – at the rear of the care home was alight.

Chief Social Work Officer at the City of Edinburgh Council, Michelle Miller has been elected Vice President of the Association of Directors of Social Work (ADSW) in Scotland.  Next year she will automatically become President of the Association.
 

Academics and politicians have reacted with anger after a girl seeking asylum was detained in Dungavel and then moved to a detention centre in England, avoiding a judicial review started in Scotland.