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Manager at Fife supported living facility embezzled more than £40,000 from residents

Edinburgh & East

Manager at supported living facility embezzled more than £40,000 from residents

Tens of thousands of unpaid carers in Scotland can now apply for new Carer Support Payment

Tens of thousands of unpaid carers now able to apply for new benefit

Edinburgh carer struck off for stealing more than £10,000 from service user’s bank account

Edinburgh & East

Carer struck off for stealing more than £10,000 from service user's bank account

Carer support payment to be rolled out across whole of Scotland after pilot

Carer support payment to be rolled out across Scotland

Secure facility for vulnerable children ‘unsafe and dangerous’, damning report finds

Secure facility for vulnerable children 'unsafe and dangerous', damning report finds

Glasgow carer struck off after being convicted of sexually assaulting two vulnerable service users

Carer struck off after sexually assaulting vulnerable service users

UK and Scottish Governments failing to act to reduce poverty, according to new report from Joseph Rowntree Foundation

POVERTY IN SCOTLAND

More than one million Scots still in poverty 'due to government inaction'

Council leaders withdraw support for Scottish Government’s revised National Care Service bill

Councils withdraw support for Scottish National Care Service

Scots living with welfare guardianship court orders reaches record high

Scots living with welfare guardianship orders reaches all-time high

Warning that National Care Service Bill could create ‘tug of war’ for services

Warning that National Care Service Bill could create ‘tug of war’ for services

Scrap National Care Service bill, unions tells Scottish Government

Scrap National Care Service bill, unions tells Scottish Government

Care homes in Lochaber and Stornoway on Lewis to close three years after being put up for sale

Highlands & Islands

Care homes on Lewis and in Highlands to close after failing to find buyer

Forfar carer struck off after embezzling over £3,000 from vulnerable individual

North East & Tayside

Carer struck off after embezzling over £3,000 from vulnerable individual

More than a quarter of Scotland’s unpaid carers living in poverty, new research finds

More than a quarter of unpaid carers in Scotland 'living in poverty'

Edinburgh carer struck off register after ‘stealing money’ from vulnerable woman

Edinburgh & East

Carer struck off after 'stealing cash' from vulnerable woman

Some children in care wait more than ten years for permanent home, study finds

Some children in care 'wait more than ten years for permanent home'

Social care workers at Enable Scotland balloted for strike action over pay, say union

Social care workers at leading charity balloted for strike action over pay

Parents ‘face increase in nursery fees’ as childcare costs continue to spiral

Parents 'face increase in nursery fees' as childcare costs continue to spiral

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