Community Justice Authorities are being set up across Scotland with the task of transforming the way councils, the Scottish Prison Service and other local organisations work together to tackle re-offending.

The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Bill has now been published with the aim of overhauling the country’s adoption system to ensure more vulnerable youngsters enjoy the benefits of a stable home life.

Health experts with Scotland’s care regulator have told a high-powered task force how homes for older people are leading the way in infection control.

Young people in care often struggle to gain qualifications at school, but what are care homes doing to improve the educational attainment of these teenagers?

Social work bosses accused of failing to adequately protect the public from violent offenders have hit back at the criticism.

Community Justice Authorities are being set up across Scotland with the task of transforming the way councils, the Scottish Prison Service and other local organisations work together to tackle re-offending.

The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Bill has now been published, with the aim of overhauling the country’s adoption system to ensure more vulnerable youngsters enjoy the benefits of a stable home life.

The latest statistics showing the take-up and costs of free personal and nursing care for 2003-04 and 2004-05 have been published.

Land on the site of a derelict paper mill in Aberdeen has been bought to provide more than 360 affordable homes.

Approximately half of local authorities need to improve their services for cared-for children, education inspectors have said.