Highland Council has awarded the contract for home-based respite services to an Edinburgh charity

ANGUS Council social work and health department’s annual report highlighted improvements across a range of services and showed a significant drop in the number of complaints received, the committee heard at their meeting on Thursday.

One of Scotland’s most violent gangs have been smashed by a major initiative – and it is to be copied in London in the aftermath of the English riots.

Scottish officials will try to contact Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to establish his condition after rebels entered the Libyan capital Tripoli.

A hard-hitting TV campaign offering hope to some of the most vulnerable people in society is to be repeated after a dramatic rise in referrals.

Major plans for public sector reform across the west of Scotland have been dealt a critical blow, with a second council expected to reject merging thousands of backroom staff.

A party which would have cost council tax payers in Dumfries and Galloway about £13,000 has been cancelled.

Social workers have been criticised for using £10,000 of a pensioner’s savings to pay for personal care which should have been funded by Edinburgh City Council.

SOCIAL workers have been criticised for using £10,000 of a pensioner’s savings to pay for personal care the local authority should have funded.

AN experimental Scottish project in which police refer young gang members directly for intensive support from a local charity has achieved dramatic results by cutting offending in half.