MORAY’S child protection service, which was criticised in a damning report in February, would now be given “a clean bill of health”, a councillor has claimed.

Dumfries and Galloway Council’s social work boss has given his strongest indication yet that centres for adults with learning disabilities will be closed.

A SOCIAL work boss accused of stealing a secret file and leaving it on a shelf in Tesco has been told he can return to work. Manager John Brittan, 41, al legedly took documents containing information about a social work client.

Angus Mental Health Association has hit out at the pre-qualifying process that led to its exclusion from the local authority’s mental health tendering process.

Angus Mental Health Association will no longer be considered in the local authority’s mental health tendering process.

Fears have been raised that Highland Council is backtracking on its commitment to build five new care homes for the elderly.

SOCIAL work services in Moray have improved over the past two years, according to an inspection report.

CAMPAIGNERS have vowed to fight tooth and nail to oppose any plans by Highland Council to scrap plans for a new residential care home in Grantown.

Gordon MSP Alex Salmond has held talks with a health chief about the future of a service which provides respite for elderly people and their carers.

THE first ambulance on the scene at a care home blaze that killed 14 people arrived half an hour after the fire alarm first sounded, an inquiry has heard.