Scottish Care, the umbrella group which represents independent care home providers, is seeking a Judicial Review over the way Glasgow City Council is offering contracts to care homes. The local
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Older people in Scotland will increasingly live alone over the next 25 years, according to the latest official projections. Nearly a quarter of people aged 16 or over are projected
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Over the summer, young people with care experience aged 14-26 years old who live in Glasgow or the Highlands will be able to make an application to the Life Changes
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The Care Inspectorate and Citizens Advice Scotland have teamed up to ensure more people know how to access help when things go wrong in care services. The two organisations have
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A care worker who force-fed and verbally abused a dementia sufferer in an Angus care home has been struck off. An inquiry panel found Christine Spence abused the resident of
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The mother of three-year-old Mikaeel Kular has pleaded guilty to killing her son in Edinburgh in January. Rosdeep Adekoya had been charged with murder, but admitted the reduced charge of
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The Care Inspectorate has served a formal Improvement Notice on an Ayrshire care home. The move comes following an unannounced inspection at Woodside House Care Home in Mauchline which found
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The Scottish Labour Party has set up a Commission to examine the quality of care services in Scotland. The commission is chaired by David Kelly, former Director of West Lothian
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Details of this years GIRFEC conference have been revealed. Taking place on Tuesday 4th November 2014 at the Stirling Management Centre, the key topic will be the Children and Young
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This year, the Scottish Government will be feeding into the UN Committee report with information on how the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) has been
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