The quality of social work services in Argyll and Bute has to “significantly” improve, a watchdog has warned. The Social Work Inspection Agency (SWIA) examined all aspects of the local authority’s social work services.

A huge rise in calls to social services has seen Edinburgh’s annual bill for protecting vulnerable youngsters from abuse and neglect soar to £53 million.

Nurses say they have had to be cut out of uniforms splattered with patients’ vomit and blood.

A nurse who started childminding for friends after the tragic death of her daughter secretly injected a baby left in her care with massive doses of insulin.

One of the victims of a Scottish paedophile ring has landed a major book deal to tell the story behind the decade of abuse she suffered.

A nursing home in Midlothian is set to close down despite concerns that residents will be moved away from their friends and families.

Residents of an Edinburgh street have flooded the Scottish Government with protests about a proposed care home extension.

Staff in care homes, hospitals and community centre will be able to collaborate more easily under a new scheme to be launched by Edinburgh University.

A care worker from Edinburgh has appeared in court in Albania facing child sex charges. David Brown has spent more than a year in prison in the Albanian capital, Tirana.

A nurse was reported to watchdogs after she ordered dementia patients out of their beds at 5.30am.