Renfrewshire social worker Liz Snodgrass has become the first winner of the Scottish Association of Social Work’s Wilma Macdonald Mental Health Officer (MHO) of the Year Award for her work supporting “highly distressed and often risky people” in the community.

COMPLAINTS continue to flood into the Herald office over a ‘bungled’ home care shake-up. Council chiefs have been forced to shell out on private contractors to help their beleaguered service.

Organisations and individuals working with young people in North and West Edinburgh are invited to CHILDREN 1ST bfriends Open Day this Friday (12 October) .

A NEW dementia research lab is to be set up at Edinburgh University. Dr Iris Oren has been awarded £45,000 by Alzheimer’s Research UK and will carry out groundbreaking research into the causes of dementia.

Plans to put elderly care services in Aberdeen under the control of an ‘arms-length’ company have taken a step forward.

Councils are to receive more than £1 million to help provide better support for people with autism.

The first ten Kilbrandon Lectures entitled ‘Reflections on Care and Justice for Children in Scotland’, have been published.

The Care Inspectorate has announced a new streamlined system for investigating complaints against registered care services, including care homes, care at home services and a wide range of social care services.

A care home worker is to stand trial accused of “wilfully neglecting” an 82-year-old patient.

A care home worker is to stand trial accused of “wilfully neglecting” an 82-year-old patient.