Fundraising directors of Scottish and major cross-border charities will meet on Friday to explore ways of preparing for a recession.

AN ABERDEEN nursery has been threatened with closure by the Care Commission after allegedly putting children at risk by failing to carry out criminal record checks on some of its staff.

Her son was only a day old when a midwife confronted Angela Simpson and said accusingly: “How do you feel about your wee one being not well because of you? Because of the methadone and whatever else you’ve been taking?”

Health care in Scotland is a decade behind education in terms of providing quality services to young people in care, experts have warned.

TENANTS First Housing Co-operative, based in Aberdeen, has been highly commended for its operating standards in three reports published this summer.

CARERS are set to speak out about the need for services and support at The Princess Royal Trust Lanarkshire Carers’ Centre annual general meeting in Motherwell today.

Union officials representing home carers angrily claimed yesterday that they had not been informed about plans by Highland Council to tender for extra privately-employed workers.

GPs are due to deliver a petition to health chiefs objecting to a planned shake-up of services.

An East Lothian man who subjected two boys in foster care to a catalogue of abuse has been jailed for six years.

First Minister Alex Salmond has hailed the “first class” education given to deaf youngsters, as he officially opened a new purpose-built school.