A police investigation has been launched after a 98-year-old woman was seriously injured at a Edinburgh care home. The woman, who is a resident at Strachan House in the Blackhall
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Siobhan McMahon MSP has launched a consultation on the abolition of non-residential social care charges. At present, local authorities across Scotland are able to charge for a range of non-residential
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Scotland’s former chief medical officer is expected to outline “the hidden costs of austerity” at the Scottish Green conference in Glasgow today. Sir Harry Burns will share a platform with
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Protests are being planned against 3,000 job losses at a city council, with unions warning of “horrendous” cuts across the country in the coming months because of enforced savings. Glasgow
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The Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) has published the results of a new report which calls for greater investment in effective family support services to
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The Scottish Parliament can and must do more to challenge extreme economic inequality in order to reduce poverty in Scotland and around the world, according to a major new policy
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Services for children and young people in Aberdeenshire are performing well but can improve further in key areas, inspectors have concluded. It follows a joint inspection of services across the
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A care centre for elderly people in Glasgow has been criticised in it’s first inspection by Scotland’s care watchdog. Hogganfield Care Centre has been ordered to make improvements after the
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Residents in North Ayrshire are encouraged to discover the range of health and social care services in the area by attending an in Irvine today. The CareNA (Care and Support
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Services for children and young people in Clackmannanshire and Stirling are improving, inspectors have found. A team of specialist inspectors from the Care Inspectorate and partner agencies returned to both
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