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New Knowledge and Practice Guidance for Support Workers
August 19, 2016
Social Service Knowledge Scotland has provided on its website a range of information about good practice, policy, publications, frameworks and leaflets. The site states that it was developed in partnership…
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Health and Safety and Making the Right Decision
August 19, 2016
Employees must ensure that health and safety is managed appropriately for the work they carry out. It’s easier to manage health and safety in an environment such as an office…
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Using Experts by Experience to Improve Services
August 19, 2016
What are experts by experience? Experts by experience are people who have direct experience of using a service. Because they have used a service, they…
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Setting Up a New Domiciliary Care Agency
August 15, 2016
Ever thought you grasped something, you repeat it to other people and then years down the line you find out that it wasn’t quite right? I have had that experience. …
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How to “get” the Mental Capacity Act
August 12, 2016
“I just can’t get my head around the Mental Capacity Act – it’s too difficult!” If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard those or similar words, I’d…
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The Power of Taste
August 12, 2016
I’d like to star this week with a quote from the popular monologue in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, ‘All the world’s a stage’ that catalogues the seven ages…
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Being Inflexible Could be Discriminatory!
August 12, 2016
A recent case acts as a timely reminder to employers that insisting employees work specific hours can, in some cases, amount to indirect sex discrimination. This notion almost seems to…
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New Inspection Methodology for Scotland
August 12, 2016
The Care Inspectorate systems are changing in several ways from this year. Inspecting care services in Scotland will have a new methodology, new and simpler reporting formats, and will be…
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