Domestic abuse cases throughout Scotland will be co-ordinated by a newly-created national prosecutor appointed to improve the way such crimes are tackled, it was announced today. Anne Marie Hicks has

The winners of Scotland’s Dementia Awards 2013 have been announced at an awards ceremony at Hampden Stadium. Over 90 nominations were received for this year’s awards which, after much deliberation

SATELLITE technology would be used to track sex offenders under Scottish Government plans to crack down on the most predatory and dangerous criminals. A consultation launched tomorrow will also propose

A shared vision of what success would look like for children in care must be established, and resources and processes should be built around that vision. That’s one of the

Scottish Government proposals to help “kinship carers” appear to be an attempt to save money and improve statistics rather than provide effective support, according to a care network. Neglected children

It’s been a dramatically busy first year for the new all-Ayrshire out-of-hours social work response service. And figures show it is reaching far more people than when Ayrshire relied on

Borders council’s social work department is battling to make savings of £800,000 this year, while facing £1.8million of service costs due to a rise in demand. According to the council’s

CARE workers in Glasgow are to ballot for industrial action as part of an agreement to end a series of wildcat strikes. Around 100 city council staff working with the

A boss of a OAP care home is being investigated over claims he accessed “granny porn” on his computer at work. David Campbell has been banned from practising as a

THE Scottish Government last night admitted that more has to done to speed up the handling of social work cases relating to child-access issues. Ministers said that they would “agree