Nurse agencies have existed for many years to supply qualified nurses to private individuals and to healthcare establishments. In Scotland they have been licensed by health boards under the Nurses

Home Detention Curfew (HDC) came into use in Scotland in 2006 and allows prisoners, mainly on shorter sentences, to serve up to a quarter of their sentence (for a maximum

We hope that this leaflet will give you more information about the developing College of Social Work; why there is an urgent need for a ‘College’, what the College Development

School care accommodation services form one part of the wide range of care services regulated by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (‘the Care Commission’) following the introduction

This consultation seeks views on four issues on Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 Part 5 in relation to medical treatment.The issues are: widening the range of institutions which can

The College of Social Work organised 12 consultation events throughout England, which ran from May to September 2010. These consultation events involved the Social Work profession and gave individuals the

Drug problems have no age limits. This special review published alongside the 2010 Annual report, reveals why drug use is no longer simply a youth phenomenon; Europe is experiencing a