A total of 195 vulnerable adults were referred to social workers in Dundee in the first nine months of last year amid concerns they were being harmed.

BOSSES at a Paisley care home have been criticised after a 13-year-old boy hanged himself in his bedroom.

SOCIAL work bosses have halted admissions to a Kilmarnock nursing home after standards of care were found to be among the worst in Scotland.

A CARE home for elderly and disabled young people was blasted for being “dirty” and “unacceptable” to live in.

A LONG-delayed new health centre for one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas will be up and running within two years after plans were approved.

THE cost of raising a child in Scotland until their 21st birthday has risen to £203,000 – or £26.50 a day – a report has revealed.

A senior member of Fife Council’s administration has resigned from the social work committee in protest at the decision to privatise care home services, The Courier has learned.

Support groups for elderly people in Aberdeenshire have expressed shock at council plans to raise charges for day care services by nearly 40%.

The former head of a residential care school for girls is to give evidence in court about the circumstances surrounding the suicides of two of his pupils.

A new information-sharing agreement between the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Scottish health and social care regulator will help protect patients from substandard nursing care, according to the two bodies.