Recruiting and retaining staff was a “huge challenge” for some residential care establishments in the past, an academic has told a child abuse probe. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard
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More than half of care homes for adults and older people plus care at home services have vacancies, a new report indicates. The joint report from the Care Inspectorate and
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The Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have published new figures on the levels of staff vacancies in Scotland’s social care services. This report provides a national
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Spare a thought on Christmas Day as you sit down to watch the Queen’s speech or prepare to tuck into your turkey, for all the care workers who are putting
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Scotland will recruit an extra 80 mental health professionals to work with children and young people with a £4 million investment. Psychologists, nurses, allied health professionals and administration workers are
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Health officials lack a clear post Brexit recruitment plan which could exacerbate current medical staff shortages, MPs have said in a report that also warns that the NHS faces regional
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Squeezed funding and staff shortages are creating “extremely fragile” home care services, a report has warned. A leading think tank and a university said fees for home care services are
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The Health Secretary has committed to adding day-to-day assessments of staff needs into new legislation aimed at ensuring safe numbers of healthcare workers. Holyrood unanimously passed the Health and Care
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Proposed new legislation to enshrine safe levels of health and care staff in law is expected to pass its first hurdle at Holyrood later. The Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland)
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A project to recruit more nursery staff from ethnic minorities has been launched by the Scottish Government. The £140,000 scheme aims to increase the diversity of the early learning and
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