Carer's Allowance claimants to receive £462 payment next month before Christmas

Residents at a care home were injected with salt water instead of the Covid-19 vaccine, the Sunday Mail can reveal.

Anne Duke, the woman whose heartbreaking battle with care home isolation inspired a Sunday Mail campaign and a change in the law, has died at the age of 63.

Care homes in the region are “at breaking point” as figures show falling capacity amid a growing workforce crisis.

Darth Vader with a Scottish accent – it might sound too strange to be true.

Temperatures have started dipping across the country and the Met Office is forecasting snow for parts of Scotland by the end of November, which means many Scots could be eligible for a £25 payment to help heat their home this winter.

The Pension Age Disability Payment is a new benefit to be delivered by Social Security Scotland that will eventually replace Attendance Allowance for Scottish claimants.

Scotland's 'longest serving' foster carer has died after 45 years of taking in hundreds of vulnerable children.

The Scottish Government has confirmed the new Child Disability Payment will open for applications across the country from next week after the successful launch of a pilot scheme in Dundee City, Perth and Kinross and the Western Isles council areas.

A wing of a care hub has been named after the first NHS worker in Scotland to die from Covid.

A Scots care home resident needed emergency medical assistance after choking on lumpy soup which her support worker had failed to have blended.

A Scottish Conservative MP has stepped down from a role in the party amid the ongoing sleaze scandal engulfing Boris Johnson’s government.

The number of care homes in Scotland has dropped by 20% in a decade, according to new data released by Public Health Scotland.

Celtic will be served with legal papers after a judge gave the green light to a US-style “class action” lawsuit against the club by sex abuse survivors.

Christmas is the season for giving and Morrisons has provided customers with a new way to help those in need this year with a Christmas 'giving tree.'

Legislation which will lead to increased financial support for more than 19,400 children and young people to help their families heat their homes this winter was recently outlined in the Scottish Parliament.

Low income families across Scotland will benefit from a £160 uplift payment to be made before Christmas as part of the Scottish Government’s commitment to tackling child poverty.

Plans for a 21st century village with almost 500 new homes in Dumfries are a step closer following a funding boost of nearly £1 million.

The Scottish Government has announced the new Child Disability Payment will open for new applications across the country from November 22, 2021 after the successful launch of a pilot scheme in Dundee City, Perth and Kinross and the Western Isles council areas.

Brendan O’Carroll is remembering a beloved Mrs Brown’s Boys crew member who has passed away from COVID-19 in recent weeks who had been with them from the start.The funny man has told how losing props master Dennis Knotts earlier this month, was like ‘losing a member of the family.’Dennis, who was from Glasgow and worked for BBC Scotland where Mrs Brown’s Boys is filmed, had been working with the crew for close to a decade.