A new partnership is being formed to support efforts to give people who receive social care increased independence and the ability to direct their own care needs.

AFTER 20 years on the go some organisations can start to lose their drive as initial enthusiasm and early successes become just dim memories overshadowed by the long and weary slog of the day to day.

A CARE home boss lost more than £800,000 on the stock market before his business collapsed.

THE decision not to place a toddler murdered by his drug addict mother on the child protection register from birth “was defensible,” councillors heard.

The council’s community care boss has outlined a future where the elderly and those suffering from dementia will increasingly be looked after at home and “allowed” to do as much for themselves as possible.

A RUTHERGLEN nursery worker this week appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on two child sex abuse charges.

RESEARCHERS have developed a smartphone app designed to help diagnose strokes.

Almost £300,000 of funding to support the Scottish Government’s autism strategy was announced by Public Health Minister Michael Matheson.

UP TO 270 Dumfries & Galloway Council posts will be axed during the current round of budget cuts. The positions will be lost through voluntary redundancies and early retirements.

A nurse who attacked a resident in a nursing home after he complained about the volume of a TV set has been handed a community service sentence.