Caring City
The Council has teamed up with Lothian and Borders Police and NHS Lothian to launch Scotland’s first ever adult protection awareness campaign.
Children and Families Social Care Direct, the new single point of contact launched to report all child welfare concerns in Edinburgh, is already proving a success since its launch at the end of March.
Troubled children in ten Edinburgh primary schools are finding a place to be heard and helped.
Edinburgh’s latest purpose-built care home and day care service has opened its doors in North Merchiston.
The number of babies being referred to the Council for temporary foster care because of parental substance misuse has doubled in the past year – 99 babies under six months old were referred in 2008.
One of the world’s great concert halls is back this summer.