A scoutmaster who spent months planning a fake camp so he could lure boys home and sexually abuse them was jailed for nine months yesterday. Assistant Scout commissioner Alan Grant plied two 15-year-old boys with drink and waited until they fell asleep before pouncing.

A psychiatrist who hosted a wild Roman toga party where a guest died from a drugs overdose was struck off yesterday. A GMC disciplinary panel decided that Dr Clint Tatchell’s “extensive and wide-ranging misconduct” made him incompatible with being a doctor.

A new £4.3million elderly residential complex was today unveiled on the site of an old Clyde shipyard. The development on the north bank of the river at the former Yarrow’s yard in Yoker will provide 20 flats. Tenants will have access to 24-hour care and support in the joint project between West of Scotland Housing Association, Glasgow City Council and Church of Scotland social care agency Crossreach.

Scotland’s first official strategy to encourage and structure volunteering is to be launched in the Capital. Inspiring Volunteering: A Volunteering Strategy for Edinburgh, aims to encourage people to join projects, ranging from teaching or supporting people with special needs, to working in shops.

Better prevention, more local care and improved support to help aid recovery are to be the focus of mental health services in the future, according to a newly published delivery plan Delivering for Mental Health. There are also to be a new set of high-level targets to provide better care in the community by cutting back on the increase of anti-depressant prescribing by supporting people in different ways, and reducing the number of people with mental ill-health who need to be re-admitted to hospital.

Talks between union and Glasgow council leaders yesterday failed to stall an unprecedented strike by key public service workers, which will leave care homes for vulnerable children and the elderly unstaffed. A walkout by up to 10,000 members of public sector union Unison over a pay review will leave the city’s key social care services without “life and limb cover” for three days from Tuesday to Thursday this week.

A pre-Christmas information campaign to prevent drug-related deaths among users during the high-risk festive holiday period in Glasgow is to be launched in conjunction with Scottish Drugs Forum. The aim is to raise awareness among drug users of the heightened risks of overdose and death over the holiday period when many services are closed and users may be feeling more vulnerable.

New laws to open up the adoption system to gay and unmarried couples will not reduce the number of children in care unless extra funding is provided to help support prospective parents. That was the stark warning this weekend from adoption agencies, who said families could be left with inadequate support if funding for social work and psychological services is not improved.

A Care Home in Aberdeen’s west end which has lain empty for three years could soon be demolished and replaced with a new £5million facility, it emerged last night. The Church of Scotland has announced plans to redevelop its Rubislaw Park Home site and build a 64-bed development for the elderly and dementia sufferers.

More than 400 people in Scotland contracted HIV last year, World Aids Day organisers have revealed. New cases were up 11% on the previous year – the biggest rise ever seen north of the border, they claimed. The figures also suggested 3,400 people are now living with disease, which can lead to Aids.