A seminar exploring access to mental health care services for linguistically and culturally diverse patients is being held by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute on 9 October 2014. The rising
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The Care Inspectorate has praised staff at a Scottish care home for their new approach to dementia care that’s had positive effects on their health and wellbeing, even reducing the
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A new £4 million care facility in Baillieston, Glasgow, that will provide care and support for vulnerable adults with mental health conditions has welcomed its new staff members following the
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Hundreds of prisoners may have been sexually abused behind bars, campaigners have said, prompting calls for more to be done to tackle prison rape. An independent commission on sex in
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Parents and carers of children and young people with additional support needs in Scotland can now access an interactive ‘map of provision’ which shows what services are available in their
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Politicians in the Yes and No camps have clashed over NHS funding in a debate before Scotland’s youngest generation of voters. The BBC’s Big, Big Debate in Glasgow’s SSE Hydro
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The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has identified an error in the data supplied by the Care Inspectorate for 2012 which was published in the Scottish Social Service Workforce Data
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The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland’s (the ALLIANCE) Dementia Carer Voices project has reached an important milestone on their ‘You Can Make a Difference’ campaign, gathering 1500 pledges from
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A recent report The Impact of Welfare Reform on Third Sector Care and Support Services In Scotland from the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) and the
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Scotland’s social care regulator has served a formal improvement notice on an Ayrshire-based care at home service. The Care Inspectorate has informed the service, HRM Homecare Services Ltd, of six
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