Scotland’s care regulator, the Care Commission, has unveiled its plan to ensure the standard of care services across the country continues to improve over the next two years.

The Scottish Government’s plans to merge the roles of the Care Commission and the Social Work Inspectorate will not compromise work to protect users of care services, the commission has promised.

A pensioner who was badly burned in a fire at a Perth nursing home has died. Edward Waddle died following the blaze at Tayside Nursing Home In Isla Road.

A GRIEVING family have slammed callous nursing home bosses after a final demand for the care of a relative landed on their doorstep – on the day if his funeral.

A Dundee care-home assistant left her job at a Catholic old people’s home after being “picked on daily” by a nun, an employment tribunal heard yesterday.

SENIOR social work officials have come under fire once again for not communicating with local councillors.

Three Scottish foster carers are among the first in the UK to take advantage of a new training course which promises to help professionalise their role and improve the care they provide for some of the country’s most disadvantaged children.

AN ideas book has been developed by a city university think tank to help carers in their daily work.

COUNCILS ACROSS Tayside and Fife last night said they are doing all they can to help families with low incomes as part of the fight to eradicate child poverty.

NHS Highlands and Islands have launched an initiative to target the number of patients suffering from long-term conditions.