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Finalists Revealed for the 2024 Care at Home & Housing Support Awards!

We’re thrilled to announce the finalists for this year’s Care at Home and Housing Support Awards!

Home is where the health is

Home is where the health is … ageing well in place. The following is a shortened edited version of a talk given to the Edinburgh University Advanced Care Research Centre […]

The devaluing of care: the stress of caring.

The month of April is Stress Awareness Month which has been held every April since 1992 and which is designed to increase public awareness about both the causes of and […]

Scotland can’t wait… social care needs to act about Parkinson’s

On April 11th there will be a global coming together for what for a number of years now has been recognised as World Parkinson’s Day. It sits within Parkinson’s Awareness […]

International Recruitment in Social Care Survey Findings

Scottish Care has conducted a survey revealing significant challenges faced by care providers in internationally recruitment.

Global Workforce Report Launched

The National Care Forum (NCF) in collaboration with the Global Ageing Network, Scottish Care and UKRI has published a report resulting from the Social Care International Workforce Summit held as part of the Global Ageing Conference last year.

Living in the face of death: not just a long goodbye.

This past week I have had a couple of conversations which though significantly unconnected have in my mind touched and influenced one another. One had to do with reaction to […]

Enhancing the lives of older people in our care homes

The following is based on part of an address given last Tuesday at an online conference organised by Faith in Older People and Anna Chaplaincy. To begin with I have […]

Restoring the essence: the role of social work in changing times.

Tuesday coming, the 19th of March is World Social Work Day. I have spent a lot of my life surrounded by social workers both in terms of being colleagues of […]

Being a shepherd: a reflection on the characteristics of leading.

A couple of days ago I had the very real pleasure of being invited to give a Fireside Chat to the participants in one of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland […]

Care at Home & Housing Support Awards 2024 – Deadline Extended!

We’ve extended the deadline for nominations to our annual Care at Home & Housing Support Awards until 5:00 pm on Monday 18 March 2024.

International Women’s Day 2024 – Spotlight

This International Women’s Day, we shine a spotlight on the remarkable women in the Scottish social care sector.

Media Statement: Concerns over North Ayrshire Homecare Support

Scottish Care voices concern over the North Ayrshire HSCP’s decision to take homecare support ‘in-house’ and to end the contracts of existing non-Council providers from June 2024.

Hope rooted in action: a social care spring.

As I write this Scotland is enduring one of its unique weather days – torrential rain falling from a virtually cloudless blue sky, and no doubt a northerly gale will […]

Care at Home & Housing Support Conference 2024 – Early Bird Tickets

Early bird tickets for the Care at Home & Housing Support Conference & Exhibition 2024 are now available!

Employer Seminar: Supporting Employees through Bereavement – 30 April 2024

The group behind the Bereavement Charter for Children & Adults in Scotland, in partnership with Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief, are pleased to announce their inaugural in-person employer seminar.