Low-income households in Scotland will lose more than £80 million in support because of the UK government’s housing benefit changes, a report has warned.

More than 600 Glasgow primary children are to be given counselling to help them cope with problems at home and school.

Esther Rantzen CBE, journalist and founder of ChildLine, addressed those working with children and challenged the current court system at a conference organised by CHILDREN 1ST.

FORTH Valley has been awarded more than £3.6 million towards implementing Scottish Government proposals to integrate health and social care for adults.

The boss of an Angus secure accommodation unit for youngsters has moved to quash local rumours about the unit’s threatened closure.

Fife Council’s care homes have been sacrificed so the local authority can press ahead with a new Madras College in St Andrews, an independent councillor has claimed.

PLANS to expand an Aberdeen care home to create space for new residents have been revealed.

A JUDGE has ordered that three young Greenock children – whose parents have a history of drug abuse – should be adopted.

Nursery care in Scotland is more expensive than other parts of Britain, according to the Daycare Trust.

Scottish council chiefs have condemned plans to shake-up adult community care as ‘simply incompetent’.