Troubled care home operator Southern Cross started to return its care homes to their owners and transfer its back office functions to a new company as it liquidated yesterday.
THERE are fears that hundreds of local vulnerable people have been left to fend themselves after it was revealed that the local health board has cut the number of home helps by 136.
The future of Fife Council’s care homes has been thrown back into uncertainty after the local authority failed to find a suitable provider to take on the service.
LABOUR councillors have been accused of costing council taxpayers more than £400,000 by delaying the start of the contract handing the running of care homes to a private company.