Vulnerable people are having their lives disrupted as charities are forced to compete with each other to take over council-funded services, it has been claimed.

NORTH Lanarkshire Council are to go ahead with plans to house two people in a villa worth more than £¼m as part of a supported living programme.

By shoring up its adult social care budget to the tune of £1.5m, East Lothian Council has taken steps to help county residents who are deemed to be “most in need.”

RELATIVES and community leaders are calling for a public inquiry following a report which criticised East Lothian Council’s handling of the closure of a troubled nursing home.

A care home worker accused of taking an indecent photo of an elderly resident in Dundee has been sacked. The woman was initially suspended from her job at Lochleven Care Home following the allegations.

MORE than 200 “high risk” violent and sex offenders living in Edinburgh are being monitored by police, it emerged today.
It is the first time the scale of the caseload facing authorities has been revealed.

Disgraced health chief Tom Skinner has been caged for two-and-a-half years. The 63-year-old former secretary of NHS Borders will also face a further two years on licence after prowling child porn sites for sick images of kids.

THE city’s social work department has been ordered to introduce more “robust” procedures for reviewing cases after a mother’s complaint about the care given to her autistic son was upheld.

A FORMER naval officer who became the social work chief for Moray and Nairn County Council and then for Grampian Region has died of cancer. Fred Edwards was 77.

The City of Edinburgh Council’s Health and Social Care Department and the Social Work subject area of the University of Edinburgh have collaborated over the last year to create a new course, which will focus on the quality of services for adults at risk of harm.