THE Scottish Government has been warned it may have to put many of its promises on hold to pay off the rapidly escalating costs of free personal care for the elderly.

Access to good palliative care needs to improve, and it must be more consistently provided, warns a report by Audit Scotland.

Organisations working in the disability sector in Dundee are being urged to take part in a nationwide charity research project.

Two care workers with decades of service between them have vowed never to work in the profession again – after being prosecuted over a throwaway remark about a disabled resident in a residential home.

AN Inverness’s council-run day centre has been ordered to bring in emergency measures following a damning report by Scottish Government watchdog the Care Commission.

A former health chief has admitted computer child pornography charges for the second time in five years.

The Government is to spend more than £10 million on clearing up landmines in Afghanistan, a minister said today.

A former foster father was jailed for 12 years yesterday after raping two girls and abusing other children.

COUNCIL bosses insisted they were still prepared to talk to unions after an estimated 150,000 local government workers today staged a one-day walkout over pay.

A national plan to improve palliative care provision has been promised by the Scottish Government after concerns over treatment for the terminally ill.