Scotland’s Telecare Development Programme has saved £11m and is improving the health of its users, according to government figures.

DEMANDS were made yesterday for a senior Highland councillor to answer questions over an administrative error which resulted in Inverness’s only hostel for women having to severely scale down its operations.

The Scottish Government’s drugs and alcohol framework is to include a national body set up as an independent charity to push for services to help recovering addicts.

ISLAND Home Care workers are currently facing a wait of 12 weeks before being paid overtime and – as the only Council employees forced to endure such a delay – calls of discrimination are now being heard.

THEY feel they have stayed silent for too long – but that is all about to change. Normally hidden from public gaze, hundreds of carers, along with the disabled people they often selflessly serve, are to march through the streets of the Capital this week in a vocal demonstration against both the Scottish Government and the city council.

A convicted child sex offender who let his partner’s baby son die of abuse in his own home was jailed for two years and three months yesterday.

SCOTLAND’S first joint drug and alcohol project has been launched in Moray. The Moray Community Planning Partnership is in line with national reforms due to be announced by the Scottish Government this week.

A MONEY-saving revamp of services for Edinburgh’s homeless has been left in chaos after council chiefs withdrew a series of contract offers to city charities at the last minute.

AN employment fair offering advice and information on careers in the care industry is being held at the end of the month.

VULNERABLE youngsters in Dumfries and Galloway are to benefit from a new system which allows child protection agencies across the country to share information.