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 […]
CEO Review – 10th January 2026.
Happy New Year and I hope that folks managed some down time over the festive period. We enter into what is one of the most critical years for social care […]
CEO Review – 13th December 2025.
Flu There is a growing clamour in the media around the so called ‘Super Flu.’ Scottish Care on our recent statements to the media has tried to highlight the importance […]
CEO Review – 29th November 2025.
It has been a really busy couple of weeks with a lot of things happening. Some of the main issues follow: Covid Inquiry With the barest impact on the media […]
CEO Review – 15th November 2025.
A brief update this week, Well at long last the meeting of the two has happened – the Cabinet Secretary has met Cllr Kelly, the political Spokesperson on Health and […]
CEO Review – 25th October 2025.
I returned to work on Tuesday having been on leave for a week and have spent a couple of days traveling to and attending an all-day event yesterday in Fort […]
CEO Review – 11th October 2025.
Finance This is almost becoming like a bizarre episode of the Twilight Zone. As regular readers will know we had hoped that the Cabinet Secretary would meet Councillor Currie from […]
CEO Review – 27th September 2025.
Finance A couple of days after I wrote the last update, I was informed by COSLA that the Cabinet Secretary had cancelled the arranged meeting with Cllr Currie to finally […]
CEO Review – 13th September 2025.
Finance Well at long last! Since I last wrote this update there seems to be some movement in terms of the financial resilience support report which I’ve begun to call […]