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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.