More than 40% of care homes in Scotland need to improve the support they offer people with life-limiting illnesses, according to a new report from Scotland’s care watchdog.

The provision of palliative care in more than 40% of care homes in Scotland needs to improve, according to a regulator.

Social work chiefs in southern Scotland have warned a “wholly new approach” is needed to the service if it hopes to meet its future budget targets.

WORK has begun on a new £3.5million centre in Glasgow for dementia sufferers and their carers. It will provide accommodation for 17 residents in Govanhill and is expected to be ready by summer next year.

A CITY care home has earned a glowing review from inspectors. Cairdeas House in Coates Gardens was rated by Care Commission inspectors as either excellent or very good in every

SCOTTISH Borders Council has this week issued assurances to hundreds of elderly and vulnerable Borderers over the quality of home care they will receive from a new external provider.

IMPROVEMENTS have been made to the council’s home care service, according to recent performance figures.

SENIOR councillors were not told that a blunder by officials had effectively shut down Inverness’s only hostel for homeless women, it has emerged.

Casualty is just a stone’s throw away if any one of them takes a turn for the worse but every day and night for 365 days of the year staff at the Beechwood House complex on Old Perth Road are on hand to help addicts turn their lives around.

SOCIAL workers in the criminal justice service have significantly improved performance, according to the city council.