CEO Update 17th October 2026
Having been on annual leave for the past week, I wanted to use this update slightly differently. I thought it would be useful to reflect on several themes which emerged […]
CEO Update 3rd October 2026
The past fortnight has brought together many of the questions that will shape Scottish Care’s work over the coming months. Whether discussing artificial intelligence, brain health, vaccination, public service reform, […]
CEO Update 19 September 2026
The last fortnight has brought together many of the issues that will shape Scottish Care’s work throughout the autumn: the developing debate about reform, the continuing fragility experienced by providers, […]
CEO Update 5th September 2026
As we move fully into September, it is difficult to avoid the sense that social care in Scotland has entered a period of unusual significance. Over the last fortnight a […]
CEO Review Saturday 22nd August 2026
As I write this update, preparations are continuing for next week’s Social Care Nursing Conference and there is a sense that, whilst it may officially still be summer, the pace […]
CEO Review – 8th August 2026
The first full week of August has brought with it that familiar mixture of apparent summer quietness and very real organisational intensity. From the outside, this can sometimes seem […]
CEO Review – 25th July 2026
A month away from writing this update and, inevitably, a great deal seems to have happened. A few weeks in politics is now almost a geological age, and the last […]
CEO Review – 27th June 2026
A fortnight of footballing hope and familiar disappointment, and a week of political churn and a ‘Manchester Messiah’. It is never a dull time! Over the last two weeks there […]
CEO Update 13th June 2026
It has been another exceptionally busy fortnight, and one in which several of the issues I highlighted in my last update have continued to develop even if not progress! […]
CEO Update 30th May 2026
Care at Home and Housing Support conference and awards It feels only right to begin where I left my last report, because the reflections and learning from our Care at […]
CEO Update 16th May 2026
Care at Home and Housing Support conference and awards. Yesterday we celebrated the annual Care at Home and Housing Support conference and awards which took place at the Radisson Blu […]
CEO Update 2nd May 2026
Scottish Election. In the last update I gave a little bit of an analysis of the manifestos of each of the main political parties. Since that period it has certainly […]
CEO Review – 18th April 2026
I’ve been on leave for the last week and so I’ve not been engaged in usual business. Not surprisingly things have moved at a slightly different pace given that we […]
CEO Review – 4th April 2026.
This comes to you during the Easter weekend and I hope you and yours are having an opportunity for some down time and those of you who are working that […]
CEO Review – 21st March 2026.
National Care Home Contract (NCHC) – where we are now Over the last fortnight the intensity around the National Care Home Contract has not eased and if anything, it has […]
CEO Review – 7th March 2026.
NCHC and Homecare framework legal vote Members will be aware the last Friday I wrote to ask for a vote in relation to seeking legal advice to withdraw both from […]
CEO Review – 21st February 2026.
Budget and Finance. Since I last wrote this update we have heard the positive news that the Scottish Government – in a deal with the Scottish Liberal Democrats – has […]
CEO Review – 7th February 2026.
Budget and Finance. You may recall in my last message I shared the dismay of COSLA and our own anger at the outcomes from the Scottish Budget. A fortnight ago […]
CEO Review – 24th January 2026.
Budget and Finance. As you will know the Scottish Budget was published on the 13th January with a Statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and further Budget debate […]