Management at Scottish social care charity Quarriers are facing calls to enter mediation talks after staff voted to strike over pay cuts.

CHURCH guilds from across Scotland have boosted a widely-acclaimed prisoner visiting centre in Perth through donations totalling £125,000.

INSPECTORS say “positive progress” is being made by Stirling Council in protecting the area’s most at risk children.

Drug users who terrorise communities by funding their habit through violent crime and theft face a crackdown.

A proposed increase in allowances to foster carers in Dumfries and Galloway has been narrowly rejected.

An elderly man has been placed on the sex offenders register after he admitted indecently assaulting a carer while she was trying to help a stroke victim.

A COUNCIL has taken account of public anger over plans to cut thousands of hours in respite care and announced it will phase in a new service instead of introducing it in little more than a month.

The number of people declaring themselves homeless in Inverness has dropped by more than half, according to the Scottish government.

A WOMAN bit her home support worker’s hair and pulled it out by the roots, Inverness Sheriff Court heard.

PLANS for West Dunbartonshire Council to merge services with other local authorities are set to be scrapped.