AN INVERNESS care home has suspended admissions following a threat of closure due to its failure to improve standards of care for residents.

A MAJOR Scottish Government commissioned report will today call for the break-up of the bureaucratic empires governing health and social care, having concluded that Scotland’s public services are “patchwork”, “outdated” and “producer-led”.

The SSSC has published new guidance on reporting poor practice in Scotland.  The SSSC Codes of Practice sets out the standards of professional conduct and practice for workers as you go about your daily work.

Susie Eskandari was given a 12-month ban by the Scottish Social Services Council after failing to remove four children from their home.

Local authority leaders today welcomed the report of the Christie Commission into the future of public services in Scotland, saying it mapped out a ‘journey that local government is both willing and able to travel’.

A teenager who plunged to her death from the Erskine bridge was “nowhere near” the criteria for her to be in a secure unit the year before she died, a fatal accident inquiry has heard.

A YOUNG boy was so “malnourished and unkempt” that he kept fainting in class after failures by a Scottish social work boss, a misconduct panel has heard.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to use a £420,000 bequest to convert a substandard care home into a healthy living centre, complete with spa and gym, for pensioners in the Galashiels area have been ditched following a three-month public consultation, writes Andrew Keddie.

A man who saw a 14-year-old girl fall to her death with a friend from a bridge has described the pair’s final moments.

Events over the last few weeks have highlighted unacceptably poor levels of care provided in some residential services by those trusted to care and support vulnerable people, writes SSSC convener, Gerry Coutts.