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CEO Review of the week to 15th  June 2024

A perilous state of affairs…  As is normal we held a June meeting of both the Scottish Care National Executive and our National Committee, the latter of which brings together […]

CEO Review of the week to 1 June 2024

General election and social care  Well, when I last wrote this update I did not see this one coming – a General Election called for July 4th. Whilst I acknowledge […]

CEO Review of the week to 18th May 2024

Care at Home and Housing Support Conference And Awards  I am writing this a few hours after the end of another successful day conference and awards ceremony. Congratulations to all […]

CEO Review of the week to 4th May 2024

Politics Well as I have often mentioned before there is a very real truth in the old adage that a week is a long time in politics. Humza Yousaf First […]

CEO Review of the week to 20th April 2024

CEO Review of the week to 20th April 2024 Operation Koper In the last few days, we have heard that there has been a significant increase in focus from Police […]

CEO Review of the week to 6th April 2024

Immigration.  Yesterday we published a briefing paper based on the research we have carried out with members on international workforce. My thanks to Caroline Deane who wrote this paper and […]

CEO Review of the week to 23rd March 2024

Covid Inquiries Karen and I gave evidence yesterday at the Scottish Covid Inquiry. Video of the evidence sessions can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=vmJKDc2v1q4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.covid19inquiry.scot%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.covid19inquiry.scot%3Fautoplay%3D1&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo  and for Karen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJux9UiG9GY In our […]

CEO Review of the week to 9th March 2024

Since the last update it has become increasingly clear that we are witnessing in many parts of the country a determined assault by the public sector on non-statutory providers of […]

CEO Review of the week to 24th February 2024

A couple of days ago Scottish Care care home members voted to accept the offer from COSLA/Scotland Excel. This was, as I highlighted in my letter, the closest vote that […]

Response to question on NCHC 2024

I was asked during the EGM about the presumptions in the latest offer in relation to pensions. We can confirm that in previous years there has been a 3% contribution […]

CEO Review of the week to 27th January 2024

After a considerable degree of preparation and planning I gave evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry on Thursday 18th January. The evidence session covered a range of issues not least […]

CEO Review of the week to 23rd December 2023

Well, the Scottish Government Budget managed to surpass all the expectations we had of it. Although I wrote in my blog last week about our hope and aspirations that the […]

CEO Review of the week to 9th December 2023

It’s been a week of significant policy announcements at both Westminster and Holyrood. On Monday we saw the Home Secretary James Cleverley announce a host of measures in response to […]

CEO Review of the week to 25th November 2023

This past week I have attended the first ‘negotiation’ meeting of the 24-25 National Care Home Contract settlement – in truth it was not so much a negotiation but an […]

CEO Review of the week to 11th November 2023

Yet again this past week has seen more evidence from Care Home Relatives Scotland at the Scottish Covid Inquiry and in the following weeks the Scottish Bereaved Families Group will […]

CEO Review of the week to 14th October 2023

The last time I wrote this update I included a copy of the letter to Scotland Excel and COSLA stipulating conditions to start discussions for 24-25. Karen and I finally […]