Skills for Care has launched a new guide to support the deployment of nursing associates in adult social care. ‘An employer’s guide to the deployment of qualified registered nursing associates
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A ground-breaking report from Community Integrated Care (CIC) has found that many frontline social care workers are undervalued by as much as 39% – nearly £7000 per year – in
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Scotland’s only all female prison appears to be using segregation as a way to manage “high levels of distress” experienced by inmates with complex mental health problems, a new report
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Domiciliary care services continued to grow during the pandemic according to data from Skills for Care’s latest ‘The size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in
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The Care Inspectorate has published a statistical bulletin which includes data on deaths from COVID-19 in care services across Scotland. The Bulletin follows a review by the Office of the
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Access Social Care, a charity providing free legal advice for people with social care needs, has released their inaugural State of the Nation report which reveals that demand for social
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Hundreds of children’s lives were ruined by abuse over the course of three and a half decades as warning signs were missed out of “ignorance and naivety”, an independent review
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The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has today published a summary of victims and survivors’ views and experiences of protected characteristics. The report found 73 percent of Forum members
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Football is our national game. It represents, probably, our largest and most significant cultural institution. Football’s reach touches almost every family and community in the land. Historically it has acted
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The Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have published new figures on the levels of staff vacancies in Scotland’s social care services. The Staff vacancies in care
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