An investigation has been launched after four elderly residents died in one week at a care home.

THE creative writing group at Kilmarnock’s Morven Day Services this week celebrated the launch of their glossy booklet ‘I’m Still Me’ – the culmination of six months of hard work.

Talks between Glasgow Council and an accommodation provider over housing hundreds of asylum seekers have broken down over pensions.

SOCIAL workers in Irvine used taxpayers’ cash to pay the court fines of young offenders in their care.

Claims the residents of a Bonnyrigg care home could be made homeless due to the operator’s financial problems have been strenuously denied.

Fife’s services for the elderly will have to undergo a major overhaul if hospitals are not to struggle to cope with the demand for beds.

The Scottish Government has defended Fife Council’s controversial decision to privatise its residential care service.

North Lanarkshire Council is to use money earmarked for an older person’s day centre in Motherwell to pay for road repairs – but claim the complex will still go ahead.

FORMER clients of Cambuslang Community Carers and Rutherglen have accused the council of renegading on promises that their care packages would not be cut.

A CHILDREN 1ST service in Moray has introduced a service that helps parents who have experienced sexual abuse in their childhood. The service, called Stronger Safer Families for parents, will provide support and help them deal with any issues arising from their experiences of sexual abuse, which are having an impact on their parenting.