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Money Matters
February 6, 2020
One of the areas of focus for 2020 inspections with the Care Inspectorate is Personal finances and how service user access these and how staff ensure that service users…
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Adult Support and Protection – Improvement Plan 2019-2022
November 26, 2019
Improvement Plan 2019-2022 The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 is now 12 years old. This laid the foundation for multi-agency working to protect vulnerable adults, at…
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Registration of Support Workers in Care at Home and Housing Support Services – Deadline Approaching
November 26, 2019
The Care Inspectorate has registered approximately 1,030 Care at Home services, with another 441* support services in Scotland. This number equates to an estimated 62,500 staff providing essential services…
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Challenging Mental Ill Health Stigma – Change starts with us!
August 1, 2019
Mental ill health can happen to anyone, it doesn’t discriminate and it’s not like a visible illness. The issue of mental health and wellbeing has long been a concern…
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Information to support you and your staff in meeting the Health and Social Care
April 30, 2018
Hello to all our Scottish clients, it was great meeting some of you at the recent Care Roadshow at Hampden Park, it was a great day, exchanging information…
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Headline Outcome – Involving People in Decisions About Care
September 28, 2017
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…
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Expectations of Care: New Standards in Scotland
September 25, 2017
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…
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Rights of people with a disability
September 8, 2017
A UN Committee on the rights of disabled people has severely criticised the UK for its treatment of people with disability. Having ratified the Convention on the rights of disabled…
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