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Scottish Care
Countdown – New Care Standards in Scotland
The National Care Standards in Scotland are available to service users and their carers in choosing and evaluating the service...
Evaluating Progress in Personalisation
Keys to Life The Scottish Government introduced Keys to Life in 2013 as a ten-year strategic policy to increase inclusion and...
Supporting people through Art & Music
Arts4Dementia Arts4Dementia (A4D) is a charity whose logo includes 'Empowering people with memory loss through artistic stimulation'. Their events and information...
Advance Care Directives
In Scotland, people receiving health and social care can make advance directives. These are statements of how they would want...
Funding Improvements for People with Learning Disabilities
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The Scottish Government introduced a new strategy in 2013 to improve services for...
Improving Supervision
The IRISS The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) is a charitable company with a mission to: ‘…promote positive...
Participation and quality
These are challenging times in providing social care, but there is also innovation and overall development of the sector. The...
Inspection and participation
Inspections by the Care Inspectorate in Scotland shifted in focus when it began to grade services for their quality. Grades...
What are the prospects for Scottish care funding?
Funding for care services in Scotland has been continuously reduced due to year-on-year cuts in local authority funding, causing great...
Integration of Health and Social Care in Scotland
Scottish care services, independent and council-run, together with the local area health services across the country, are currently working through...