The way in which a flagship mental health day care project in Hawick was closed has come in for criticism. About 50 clients were informed of the decision to shut Springboard in the town’s Cross Wynd on 5 May.
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{mosimage} More will be done to help identify children who are at risk in homes with drug-addicted parents even before they are born, ministers have pledged.
First Minister Jack McConnell said the safety of children must come first as he unveiled the Scottish Executive’s new policy Hidden Harm – Next Steps. He said “chaotic” drug abuse was incompatible with effective parenting.
The policy calls for action to improve the identification of youngsters at risk, including at the pregnancy stage. This would enable support to be given at the earliest possible stage. Drug users with children will be assessed so that a decision can be made on their capability as parents.
RCN Scotland has called on the Scottish Executive to increase the payments made to care homes to cover nursing care. On the day (Tuesday) of the RCN Scotland Independent Sector Conference in Edinburgh, the nursing union has highlighted that nursing care payments in Scotland are the lowest in the UK and have not increased since 2002.
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ProjectScotland, the revolutionary new volunteering organisation which matches young Scots to full-time community work, celebrates its 1st anniversary on Monday 8th May.
Over the year, the organisation has received thousands of enquiries from young people from all over Scotland and has placed more than 470 volunteers into full time positions – trumping the 450 target it was set by the Scottish Executive when it launched.
The head of social services in Wiltshire, Dr Ray Jones, has quit his job, amid the Who pays for care?’ row between the county council and primary care trusts.
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Doctors in England are to get new guidelines telling them how to help patients tackle obesity head on. GPs will have to treat obesity as if it were any other medical condition and advise overweight patients to slim under the new government guidelines.
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East Ayrshire Council’s Social Work Committee today made a decision on the future of services for older people in East Ayrshire which will revolutionise service provision.
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On June 13, 2002, 108-year-old Alice Knight finally starved herself to death. It was her protest, a protest against being moved from the care home she loved to one she did not recognise.
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The Executive’s response to the Care 21 report, The Future of Unpaid Care in Scotland, is set out today in the form of a 10-year vision that has four immediate priority areas for action.
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Councillor Eric Jackson COSLA’s Social Work and Health Improvement Spokesperson has been appointed to the Board of the Scottish Prison Service.
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