A NEW service for people with a learning disability is set to open in Corstorphine. The service will provide care and support for six young people with a severe or complex learning disability.

The number of drug overdoses in some of the city’s most deprived areas has soared in the last decade. Newly released figures show the number of people discharged from hospitals following treatment for drug abuse in the last three years and where in Edinburgh they come from.

A report has found that North Ayrshire Council did not consult sufficiently with pensioner residents of sheltered housing before deciding to withdraw wardens.

A social worker yesterday stood by a decision not to return a troubled teenager to secure accommodation months before she died after taking drugs on a night away from council care.

Child protection services in Scotland are a “ticking timebomb”, with social workers struggling to cope with increased caseloads and staff shortages, a leading union warned today.

CAMPAIGNERS are criticising Highland Council for ditching plans to build new council houses in the Highlands in the same week it decided on rent increases for tenants.

A new blueprint for the future of specialist NHS services for some of Scotland’s most seriously ill children and young people has been launched today.

A ROTHESAY social worker fired after an incident with a man over a long-running feud has won her unfair sacking claim – but received no compensation.

A HOMELESS charity could be forced to repay a £500,000 debt in full to Glasgow City Council. The Glasgow Simon Community is under investigation after failing to deliver services to the homeless paid for by the council over two years.

A multimillion-pound care home for dementia sufferers will be built in Aberdeen this year. The £6million facility in the city’s Rubislaw Park Road is to be built by the Church of Scotland’s social care arm, CrossReach.