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Social work in Scotland is at a watershed and the public and service users must be more involved in shaping future provision, according to a new report produced by the Accounts Commission.

Lindsay Bryce MacKay A senior solicitor at Scottish law firm Gillespie Macandrew’s has achieved top marks in a prestigious qualification from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Scottish Building Society, the only independent building society in Scotland and the oldest building society in the world, has been awarded a ‘Mark of Distinction’ by the Keep Me Posted campaign.

Gyle Square Glasgow-based commercial law firm Leslie Wolfson has acted in the £48.3 million sale of a headquarters office building in West Edinburgh, occupied by NHS National Services Scotland.

Claire Middlebrook The owner of a Scottish insolvency firm is aiming to use a new financial technology and the power of social media to provide a “fairer crack of the whip” for unsecured creditors to recoup their money in the event of a liquidation.

Richard Close The falling through of a deal between Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander to buy hundreds of bank branches is likely to force a fire-sale of the properties, experts have said.

Official figures have revealed that Orcadians have enjoyed a greater increase in their disposable income than anywhere else in Scotland.

Andrew Tyrie The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) is urging the UK Government to listen to advice contained in a letter from the Chairman of the Treasury Committee concerning the radical changes to business record keeping and reporting that will be required by HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (M

Callum Sinclair, Burness Paull partner and head of technology sector, and Elevator chief executive Gary McEwan (right). Start-up accelerator Elevator, which aims to fast-track entrepreneurs and their businesses across Grampian and Tayside, has announced two new strategic partnerships.

Rosalie Chadwick Scotland is lagging behind the rest of the UK in the number of companies represented on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), an Edinburgh conference has heard.

Martin Gilbert Martin Gilbert, chief executive and founder of Aberdeen Asset Management, has said that he expects fund groups to be the least affected among the financial services industry by the long-term implications of Brexit.

The saga that is Royal Bank of Scotland’s attempts to sell of a tranche of branches in order to meet the EU state aid conditions of its £45 billion 2008 government bailout has taken another twist after Santander again pulled out of the running to buy its Williams & Glyn spin-off.

The Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon investment trust has announced it is reducing fees to 0.55 per cent on assets over £250m.

Scottish smaller business confidence reached its lowest ebb since 2011 following June’s referendum, new figures from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) show.