Expert Insights

  It will be useful for services to become familiar with the layout and content of the new Health and Social Care standards in Scotland before they are fully introduced…

The arts can make a powerful difference to someone’s social and health care. The recent All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Well-being and the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust report,…

Commonly an overlooked part of the disciplinary process, the disciplinary investigation can often be the difference between a dismissal being fair and unfair. A detailed investigation will give an employer…

New health and social care standards are being introduced in Scotland, to be fully implemented during 2018. The standards are concise, and are contained in a 20-page booklet which applies…

Identity cards get a bad press, with their suggestion that ‘Big Brother’ is watching us.  And the last thing that many people with a brain injury want is to be…

From my experience, social care recruiters have leant heavily on Internet Job Boards for finding staff. The more successful have already started to diversify. So, let’s take a look at…

When people ask me what Skills for Care do (and for that matter what social care is!) I could give them any number of responses linked to policy, statistics, resources,…

It has been announced that there will be a radical shakeup for Health and Social Care and Childcare, resulting in new Social Care Wales Qualifications. A sector review outlined a…