We Had No Choice But To Stand Up For The Children
Three months after being sacked, the workers who blew the whistle on the management of children’s homes in Wakefield are facing up to a tough struggle to see justice done.
Read MoreThree months after being sacked, the workers who blew the whistle on the management of children’s homes in Wakefield are facing up to a tough struggle to see justice done.
Read MoreThousands of families may be forced to pay “top-up fees” for the care of elderly loved ones due to a multi-million-pound shortfall in government funding.
Read MoreA national review of mental health nursing in Scotland and a five-year action plan on how to develop this workforce has now been published.
Read MoreA nursing expert with the sole brief to improve standards in care homes for older people has been appointed by Scotland’s care regulator.
Read More{mosimage}The first commitment from the recent Our Health, Our Care, Our Say White Paper was delivered today when guidance on the new Director of Adult Social Services (DASS) role was issued by Ivan Lewis, Care Services Minister.
The new role will provide strengthened leadership, work on closer integration of health and social care as set out in the White Paper, and deliver strategic needs assessments. Best practice statutory guidance to help local authorities implement the new post has been sent to social services chief executives today.
Read MoreA multi-agency partnership is calling for an increase in appropriate housing to improve the health and wellbeing of older people in the South West of England.
Read MoreThe way in which a flagship mental health day care project in Hawick was closed has come in for criticism. About 50 clients were informed of the decision to shut Springboard in the town’s Cross Wynd on 5 May.
Read MoreThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has welcomed Aberdare Magistrates’ decision to fine Parkcare Homes Ltd £8,000 and pay £10,608 in costs after a resident at one of their care homes suffered a broken arm whilst being lifted out of a bath.
Read MoreProjectScotland, the revolutionary new volunteering organisation which matches young Scots to full-time community work, celebrates its 1st anniversary on Monday 8th May.
Over the year, the organisation has received thousands of enquiries from young people from all over Scotland and has placed more than 470 volunteers into full time positions – trumping the 450 target it was set by the Scottish Executive when it launched.
RCN Scotland has called on the Scottish Executive to increase the payments made to care homes to cover nursing care. On the day (Tuesday) of the RCN Scotland Independent Sector Conference in Edinburgh, the nursing union has highlighted that nursing care payments in Scotland are the lowest in the UK and have not increased since 2002.
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