Police To Set Up New Abuse Unit
Police in Inverness have set up a new unit which will concentrate on domestic violence, cases involving vulnerable adults and child protection inquiries.
Read MorePolice in Inverness have set up a new unit which will concentrate on domestic violence, cases involving vulnerable adults and child protection inquiries.
Read MoreA woman in a wheelchair who was indecently assaulted by a man posing as a doctor yesterday spoke for the first time about her ordeal.
Read MoreA report into Scotland’s most notorious child sex abuse scandal has concluded that Orkney Islands Council was negligent and an eight-year-old girl should not have been taken into care, The Scotsman has learned.
Read MoreScientists at Dundee University believe they may be a step closer to finding out why some people contract cancer. Researchers have found that people who carry a variant of a specific gene are less likely to develop lung cancer.
Read MoreThousands of asthma hospital admissions could be avoided if patients were given personalised plans to manage their condition, it was claimed yesterday. Almost 400,000 people in Scotland suffer from asthma and more than 6,000 emergency trips to hospital each year are caused by the condition.
Read MoreA growing number of Scots children are falling victim to parental abduction, despite an international crackdown. The rate of international child-abduction cases is rising in Scotland following the growth of family breakdowns and increasing ease of travel, say legal experts.
Read MoreHealth and social work staff are being merged to create a more efficient service. East Renfrewshire Council’s social work department and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s local health services have moved into a new office block in Burnfield Avenue, Giffnock.
Read MoreA new care home planned for the site of Edinburgh’s Eastern General Hospital is facing a delay of nearly one year. The council is due to open four new homes in the city to help tackle the problem of “bed blocking”, where patients are held in hospitals because they have nowhere else to go.
Read MoreA lack of out-of-hours social work staff at Dumfries and Galloway Council is putting child ren’s services at significant risk. The council’s chief social work officer Beth Smith highlighted the problem in a report on emergency out-of-hours social work.
Read MoreA man separated from his mum two days after his birth has called in police to investigate the social workers who kept them apart. David Morgan was given up for foster care by mum Catherine in 1967. But she changed her mind two days later.
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