Social Care

Residents and staff at Crookston Care Home Tranent enjoying a game of bingo. Crookston Care Home in Tranent has received a glowing report following an unannounced inspection conducted by the Care Inspectorate.

An independent review is recommending wider regulation of social care staff to better protect and help people receiving social care and support. The Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation in Scotland makes 38 recommendations including updating legislation, Health and Social Care S

Eildon Housing’s extra care services at Dovecot Court in Peebles and Wilkie Gardens in Galashiels were inspected in August 2023 by the Care Inspectorate and received high praise for the quality of their regulated care and support which forms part of their extra care service. The Care Inspector

Young and old came together this week to celebrate the opening of Fife’s first intergenerational care village in Methil. Built on the former site of Kirkland High School, the village includes a 36-bed care home, integrated nursery, extra care housing properties for older people and four specif

A new £10 million social care hub is to be developed in Tongue after receiving planning approval.

Scotland’s care homes sector is facing an uncertain future due to mounting financial and operational pressures, including shortfalls in local authority funding, with further closures and a contraction in capacity likely, an insolvency expert is warning. Around 1,050 care homes in Scotland with

After a recent Care Inspectorate visit to Eildon’s learning disability service at Station Avenue in Duns, the service received high praise for the quality of its combined care at home and housing support service. A Grade 5 'very good' was awarded across the board following the inspection. This

The “warm, genuine, kind and respectful” support by staff shown to people using Orkney Council’s Care at Home Services and overall leadership has been praised in a new inspection report.

Staff at Kalisgarth and Very Sheltered Housing on Westray in Orkney are “dedicated, compassionate and genuinely care for the people they support” and those receiving care feel “respected and valued” and are “very happy” with the service, according to the Care Insp

The High Court of Justiciary has tripled a fine imposed on a care home that pled guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 following the death of a resident after the Crown challenged the original level of fine as being unduly lenient.

VSA, the social care charity supporting the people of Aberdeen & North East Scotland, welcomed Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland and shadow cabinet secretary for education and skills to its headquarters in the city of Aberdeen this week. Mr Kerr heard more about the charity’s-modern a

Scottish Borders Council is to begin community engagement regarding its plans for a new care village development in Tweedbank. A Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) has been submitted by the local authority for the 60-bed facility ahead of a formal planning application.

Eildon Housing’s sheltered housing services have received high praise for the quality of its housing support service.

The outstanding teamwork of staff and partners has been recognised at the official opening of Blantyre Life.

West Lothian Council has agreed action which should save council-run care homes from closing. The West Lothian Integration Joint Board (IJB) is responsible for commissioning adult health and social care services and overseeing the delivery of these services in West Lothian.