A BOOZY care worker who turned up drunk at a children’s home has dodged the sack. Martin Phillips punched and slapped one child, put another in a headlock and sat on a staff member.

RESEARCHERS from the University of Dundee have published the first book on an innovative intervention technique credited with helping to keep families together and improve the performances of teachers and pupils.

An erosion of social values and an increase in family break-ups are being blamed for the record high number of Dundee children in council care.

JUDGES and jurors in Scotland will be able to hear evidence of an accused’s previous convictions and “bad character” under proposals by a panel that advises the Scottish Government on new legislation.

SIGNIFICANT improvements in child protection services in Dundee have been praised by the Care Inspectorate – only three years after a damning report listed a litany of failures by agencies in protecting vulnerable children from “significant harm.”

A woman has claimed her husband, who had dementia, was given 106 different carers in a single year.

Parents need to do more to stop children spending too much time watching television or playing computer games, according to a psychologist.

A RESIDENTIAL child care worker who supplied alcohol to a “vulnerable” teenager has been struck off.

The number of Scottish councils should be cut by almost half and their powers boosted to revitalise local government, a think tank has said.

A public inquiry is needed into child protection so people can have confidence in the system, Labour leader Johann Lamont has said.