Plans to raise the age of criminal responsibility in Scotland – at present the second lowest in Europe – received widespread backing yesterday.

A strike by 21 council staff in Glasgow could mean minor offenders receiving jail terms instead of being sentenced in the community.

Health workers and police have joined forces with a north-east local authority to launch a new training programme to help protect children from abuse.

Aberdeen City Council’s under-fire social work department has been praised for saving £900,000 in four months by reducing the number of children it has placed in care outside the authority’s boundary.

MG ALBA announced today that it has commenced the roll out of Freesat box provision in residential care homes throughout the Western Isles.

Aberdeen City Council has rubber-stamped a £24.5m package of cuts as it struggles to overcome its financial crisis.

TWENTY-three years after starting her career pounding the beat as a young uniformed bobby in Hawick, Detective Chief Inspector Linda Little has become head of CID in the Borders.

The boss of an Aberdeen charity for homeless people has called on the city council to close more schools rather than axe services to vulnerable people, it can be revealed.

GANG members in Glasgow’s east end are turning away from violence thanks to a hard-hitting US-style project.

THE health of frail pensioners is being put at risk as home helps struggle to meet time targets, council chiefs have been warned. Workers say they are increasingly being put under pressure to squeeze tasks such as feeding, washing and administering medicine to some of the city’s most vulnerable people, that usually take an hour, into 30 minutes.