A new Maggie’s Centre for cancer patients and their relatives is to open in Lanarkshire. The interim facility will be based at Wishaw General Hospital until a dedicated service at Monklands Hospital is built.

A £250,000 target has been set to support kinship carers in Dumfries and Galloway for the year ahead.

Two private care institutions were criticised yesterday by a watchdog for failing to meet government standards.

New guidance on services for people with autism has been published by the Scottish Government.

The closure of Glasgow’s “warehouse” style homeless hostels marks a new beginning for homelessness services in the city, Communities Minister Stewart Maxwell said today.

The two boys and a girl were forced into young offenders’ institutions, which normally house adults aged 16 to 21, following the closure of the country’s biggest secure unit for children after a weekend riot.

A CARE home exposed by a Record investigation for abusing elderly residents is to close. Davenport Nursing Home has such an appalling reputation and is in such a poor state of repair that residents are rejecting offers to go there.

STAFF at a riot-hit secure unit say management are risking their lives by being soft on the child inmates. Two dangerous teenagers went on the run after the latest outbreak of rioting, in which workers were slashed and battered.

Staff say police were only called after six hours of mayhem on Saturday night and Sunday morning.

By then, they claim, the rioters had set fire to rooms at the unit, St Mary’s Kenmure in Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow.

Ten teenagers had broken out, although eight were caught. A ninth was being held by police last night and is expected in court today.

One worker said yesterday: “It’s supposed to be like Colditz for kids. But it’s more like Castle Chaos. The way things are going, it’s only a matter of time before someone is killed.”

The worker added: “We are dealing with murderers and rapists and yet we are expected to treat them with kid gloves.

Plans for an £83m emergency care centre in Aberdeen have moved a step closer. The NHS Grampian board has approved outline proposals to relocate key frontline health services onto the main Foresterhill site.

Ten young offenders escaped from a secure unit after a late-night riot, it emerged today.

Police are still hunting two of the youths who went on the run following the incident at St Mary’s Kenmure in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire.

An estimated £100,000 worth of damage was caused at the facility on Saturday night after fires were started, computers smashed and staff attacked.

Twelve youngsters have been arrested and the unit has been temporarily closed while investigations continue.

The incident, which happened late on Saturday night and escalated into the early hours of yesterday, is the second disturbance in the last month at St Mary’s.

A Strathclyde Police spokesman said: “Ten youths made off from the premises and eight were traced a short time later.