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.

FIFE Councillors were forced to abandon a social work meeting this week after interruptions by home care campaigners led to chaos.

ON THE day the parents of a young woman murdered in Glasgow launched a new drugs awareness campaign, new figures have revealed Fife’s shocking drug death toll dramatically worsened last year.

Tragedies such as the deaths of Baby P in London and Brandon Muir in Dundee could be prevented if a ground-breaking experiment in the south of Glasgow is extended, an expert has claimed.

A care worker who wrote across the face of a dementia patient with a pen has been fined £250.

THE general manager of the region’s largest charitable provider of home care says she is “extremely disappointed” that the contracts for the external delivery of the service have been awarded to two private companies based outwith the region.

THE number of youngsters on the child protection register in Aberdeen soared by 22% in the wake of the tragic death of Baby P, it emerged yesterday.

Two Stirling care homes, which house up to 40 elderly residents, have been saved from closure. The council decided last month that Wellgreen and Beech Gardens would be shut and the savings used to provide care in people’s own homes.

Islanders have set up a letter writing campaign to Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon. An emotional appeal has gone out from the Isle of Cumbrae to SNP Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon urging for a new care facility on the island as elderly husbands and wives have been ‘separated’