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.

SOCIAL work staff have raised major doubts over the recovery of their department – nearly three years after a damning inspection.

A DRUNK man who head-butted a social worker after turning up for an appointment the worse for alcohol has been fined £500. Kevin Lawniczak, 35, of Kelburn Street in Paisley, attacked Craig Smith when he was stopped from entering an office because he was in a drunken state.