A report into North Lanarkshire care homes reveals a number of serious shortcomings, a Labour MSP has claimed.

A former social worker with the Tayside Deaf Association has been given an official warning for misconduct.

A CAFE offering support to people with dementia launched last week at Rutherglen Town Hall. Rutherglen Dementia Café was inaugurated on Tuesday and enjoyed a good turn out.

A national care regulator has called for a “radical change in culture” to protect vulnerable adults.

A WISHAW care home has been blasted by watchdogs for a catalogue of failures – including giving scrapped UK medicine to a patient who didn’t even need it.

A FORMER city councillor has been banned from making solo visits to his elderly mother in a care home run by the beleaguered Southern Cross Healthcare company after complaining about her treatment.

A SHAKE-UP of homelessness policy will cost 30 jobs in the voluntary sector and could leave some of the city’s most vulnerable people without vital support, it was claimed today.

A COMPANY is recruiting 50 new care workers to help look after vulnerable or elderly people in Edinburgh.

Scheme sees 400 gang members sign up to a pledge of non-violence, with knife-carrying down by almost 60%

AN INVERNESS care home has suspended admissions following a threat of closure due to its failure to improve standards of care for residents.