Scottish Social Care

The National Institute for Social Care (NICE) has developed guidelines for best practice in commissioning and delivering home care for older people in England. The guidelines ‘Home care: delivering personal…

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The Scottish Government introduced a new strategy in 2013 to improve services for people with learning disabilities. It is based on the…

The IRISS The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) is a charitable company with a mission to: ‘…promote positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland’s social…

These are challenging times in providing social care, but there is also innovation and overall development of the sector. The recent introduction of the Care Act 2014 in England has…

Inspections by the Care Inspectorate in Scotland shifted in focus when it began to grade services for their quality. Grades are published with the inspection report, and ranged from ‘6,…

Funding for care services in Scotland has been continuously reduced due to year-on-year cuts in local authority funding, causing great difficulties for people who use these services. The simple cause…

Scottish care services, independent and council-run, together with the local area health services across the country, are currently working through an exciting but challenging time of change. By 2016, these…

There are substantial challenges for the care sector at present. One factor is the current shrinking economy of care, whereby funding is increasingly reduced in this time of public austerity.…