EAST Lothian Council officials have admitted they failed to do enough to inform the public about controversial plans to put some support services out to competitive tender.

A joint social work and health project aimed at preventing falls by older and vulnerable people in the Falkirk area has won another national award.

Vulnerable residents of a closure earmarked Dundee care home were facing an anxious wait today to find out where and when they will be re-housed (writes Graham Huband).

JOBS could be axed at a riot-hit secure unit in East Dunbartonshire. As many as 40 jobs could be at risk at St Mary’s Kenmure, which hit the headlines in March 2008 when a number of young offenders escaped and thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused.

Moray Council’s occupational therapists spend only a fifth of their time in direct contact with patients, it was revealed yesterday.

IRISH Street could become a social work hub with the local authority looking to centralise its support services there.

Deaf people in Tayside feel like second-class citizens as a result of the “patronising and parental” treatment they receive at the hands of Tayside Association for the Deaf’s social workers (writes Stuart Johnstone).

A leading councillor last night admitted that the biggest shortcoming of Moray’s child-protection service was its inability to successfully and consistently share information.

A senior doctor at a Moray hospital has been suspended amid claims that he failed to alert police and social workers to an alleged sexual assault on a girl.

Nineteen finalists have been announced for Care Accolades 2009, the prestigious awards for the social service workforce in Scotland.