WELFARE cuts will have a lasting impact on all corners of Glasgow, not just those on benefits, warned the city council’s social care leader.

The Care Inspectorate today announced the appointment of a new top-level executive team charged with directing the organisation’s work as part of a major restructuring exercise.

Last year 15 new Renfrewshire families opened their hearts and their homes to vulnerable children by deciding to become foster carers.

Are you raising a child who can no longer live with their parents – or know someone else doing so? If the answer is yes, then you are a “kinship carer” and advice and support is available at a series of Kinship Care forums held by CHILDREN 1ST across Scotland this month.

This is your opportunity to publicly recognise a social work team or individual social worker whose practice demonstrates excellence in social work. Service users, carers, colleagues or employers who are nominating a team or individual will have the opportunity to acknowledge the positive contribution social workers have made for them.

Adult protection experts from across the north-east have joined forces to share their knowledge with health and social care students in a bid to promote collaborative working to future practitioners.

“Overgenerous” care packages for adults with learning disabilities are being clawed back to help cut a projected £1.4 million overspend in Stirling Council’s social services budget.

Parents and carers have been urged by CHILDREN 1ST to be more vigilant about the online risks to children and to learn how to help keep them safe.

Child protection services in Fife face an “unprecedented” challenge, with a record number of vulnerable youngsters now in care and a desperate need to cut costs.

A former care manager with Perth and Kinross Council’s social work department has lost her claim for constructive unfair dismissal after making “whistleblowing” claims against the authority.