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Inspection and participation
September 8, 2015
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,…
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What are the prospects for Scottish care funding?
August 28, 2015
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…
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Integration of Health and Social Care in Scotland
August 24, 2015
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…
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Challenges ahead – changing roles in social care
August 16, 2015
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.…
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