Care home proposed for Toryglen as £74m spend is approved
TORYGLEN looks set to be the site of a new care home as part of a multi million pound project being promoted by Glasgow City Council.
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TORYGLEN looks set to be the site of a new care home as part of a multi million pound project being promoted by Glasgow City Council.
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There are claims that some elderly people who should be receiving care at home in the strath are being left to fend for themselves because of staff shortages.
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Renfrewshire Council has the worst record in Scotland for protecting private data, a campaign group claimed.
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Social care providers are not sufficiently focused on projecting an image of quality for their sector and have become too reliant on regulators to maintain standards, MPs have been told.
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A DUMFRIES woman who put alcohol in a teenager’s soft-drink has been removed from the child care register.
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All local safeguarding children boards (LSCBs) will be required to undertake regular checks to assess whether children in their area are at risk of sexual exploitation, under government plans to tackle the problem.
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A series of scandals have exposed a lack of understanding of social care in the ranks of both Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission. The watchdogs need to learn from the wisdom of those delivering the service. By Ray Jones.
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A children’s charity has described a big rise in the number of children being placed on the child protection register as “deeply worrying”.
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Kevin Curley used his final speech at Navca’s annual conference yesterday to criticise the “strange and confused” relationships that have developed between charities and private companies.
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Campaigners battling against Fife Council’s plan to privatise its council-run care homes for the elderly fear the plan is still on the table, reports Gail Milne.
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