The search for the best social service projects, teams and organisations showcasing innovation, excellence and dedication in Scotland is nearly completed as the finalists are announced.

Residents at a care home in Prestwick are being taken back in time after their dwellings were given a 1970s makeover.

A children’s charity has said families in Scotland are being failed by early learning provision. Children in Scotland (CIS) wants the Scottish government to pledge more funding to develop learning services for those under the age of three.

The Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) has cautioned Scotland’s justice minister against a kneejerk move towards the use of satellite technology in tracking sex offenders after suggestions the approach could have prevented a paedophile’s attempt to murder a 60-year-old woman and attack her granddaughters

A commitment to driving up social care standards has been among the key issues embraced by parties in Scotland, as communities place their votes in the local elections today.

A MEMBER of staff was sacked from Kirknowe Care Home after feeding a resident a dog biscuit – the second shocking story to emerge from the Wishaw facility in as many weeks.

An inquiry into a suicide pact between two teenage girls has found their deaths “may have been avoided”.

THE family of a teenager who jumped from a bridge in a suicide pact with a friend said they were “shocked and surprised” to hear she had ben bullied at the centre where she was being cared for.

THE owners of Kirknowe Nursing Home in Wishaw launched an investigation – after a staff nurse gave a 69-year-old woman an implant for prostate cancer – then failed to record the shocking blunder.

HARD-UP Scottish social workers spent £20million on taxi fares over the last three years.