Social Care

The “warm, genuine, kind and respectful” support by staff shown to people using Orkney Council’s Care at Home Services and overall leadership has been praised in a new inspection report.

Staff at Kalisgarth and Very Sheltered Housing on Westray in Orkney are “dedicated, compassionate and genuinely care for the people they support” and those receiving care feel “respected and valued” and are “very happy” with the service, according to the Care Insp

The High Court of Justiciary has tripled a fine imposed on a care home that pled guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 following the death of a resident after the Crown challenged the original level of fine as being unduly lenient.

VSA, the social care charity supporting the people of Aberdeen & North East Scotland, welcomed Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland and shadow cabinet secretary for education and skills to its headquarters in the city of Aberdeen this week. Mr Kerr heard more about the charity’s-modern a

Scottish Borders Council is to begin community engagement regarding its plans for a new care village development in Tweedbank. A Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) has been submitted by the local authority for the 60-bed facility ahead of a formal planning application.

Eildon Housing’s sheltered housing services have received high praise for the quality of its housing support service.

The outstanding teamwork of staff and partners has been recognised at the official opening of Blantyre Life.

West Lothian Council has agreed action which should save council-run care homes from closing. The West Lothian Integration Joint Board (IJB) is responsible for commissioning adult health and social care services and overseeing the delivery of these services in West Lothian.

The Edinburgh Integration Joint Board has agreed an ambitious new plan to improve care standards and drive down costs across the capital through smarter, more modern and person-centred care. At the heart of the new plan is to reduce waiting times and improve access to care and support. This can only

People across Scotland are being invited to have a say on how a new National Care Service should work. A programme of meetings will take place over the summer, stretching from Dumfries and Galloway to Shetland. There will also be online meetings for anyone who would prefer to join discussions remote

Social workers in Scotland are ‘leaving in their droves’, according to a new social care policy brief from Scotland’s largest trade union body. In its report: ‘Undervalued, underpaid and leaving in droves: The crisis in Scotland’s adult social care workforce', the Scott

Strengthened national guidance on visiting has improved residents’ quality of life, health secretary Michael Matheson was told by staff and residents at a care home in Greenock. The Health and Social Care Standards, which came into force last April, gave people living in care homes rights to s

A care home developer has failed in its bid to overturn a decision to reject its plans for a 66-bed care home on the site of a former bowling and tennis club in Glasgow. Northcare (Scotland) Ltd submitted a second bid in October to replace Anniesland Bowling and Tennis Club at Helensburgh Drive with

Balmanno House in the West End of Glasgow, one of the UK’s longest continuously operating care homes, has entered administration.

Health & Social Care North Lanarkshire’s new Strategic Commissioning Plan for the next three years has been approved by the North Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board (IJB). The plan sets out ambitious key local priorities for health and social care services to ensure people are supported t