A teenager who jumped with her friend from a bridge over the River Clyde had written a suicide note a year before the double death tragedy.

SOCIAL work bosses have defended the controversial reshaping of day services for Borders adults with learning disabilities.

THE chief executive of a top veterans’ charity quit his post just days before a damning report was published into one of the group’s care homes.

The Scottish social services sector: workforce data report 2009 published by the SSSC combines data from the Scottish Government annual census of staff in local authority social work services with

Robert Myloff denies attacking two elderly residents at the Ballumbie Court Care Home in Dundee.

Nearly 80% of unpaid carers in Scotland are worried about cuts to services, according to new research.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said the Government will take “any steps possible” to ensure that residents in crisis-hit Southern Cross care homes do not have to move.

THERE are fears the closure of the Elsie Inglis care home could plunge Edinburgh into a new bed blocking crisis. Since the removal of residents from the Abbeyhill home last month there are around 70 extra people who need to be looked after in a system which is already struggling for space.

A council breached the Data Protection Act after a home support worker’s bag was stolen containing papers which included sensitive personal information, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today.

Inspection teams are to be sent into Scottish hospitals in a bid to ensure there is no repeat of the “woefully inadequate” care given to a dementia patient in Dundee.