Scotland’s social services have been honoured for their outstanding commitment to improving lives for the people they support at the inaugural Scottish Social Services Awards. Introduced by the Scottish Social
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A nursery in Perth has been told it must make swift improvements to the care provided to children. The Care Inspectorate has served a formal improvement notice on Little Einstein’s
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A new campaign has been launched to ensure Scotland’s young carers can get the help they are entitled to in a bid to save them from the added worry of
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Scottish Ballet has been awarded £150,000 by the Life Changes Trust to enable them to become dementia friendly. They will use the funding to set up a programme of dementia
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Scotland’s new Health and Social Care Standards have been launched, with human rights at their core. The standards, which will be implemented on 1 April 2018, will apply to the
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Waiting-times targets for specialist mental health care are not being met for more than a quarter of adults and one in six youngsters, new figures have revealed. The data, which
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The number of patients kept in hospital after being told they were well enough to leave has increased, according to new figures. Official statistics from a census carried out in
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A woman who died after an attack which also left a teenage boy critically injured has been named by police. Alyson Watt, 52, who worked for Barnardo’s Scotland, died at
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Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has highlighted her plans to tackle child poverty, as she accused the SNP and Tories of being too focused on division to address the issue.
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A senior Scottish Government minister has accused the Conservatives of trying to “sweep child poverty under the carpet”. Communities Secretary Angela Constance said the UK Government was trying to hide
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