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When words come home: Gaelic, memory and the meaning of care

There are moments when language stops being a tool and becomes a refuge. For me, Gaelic has always been like that. Not simply a language I inherited, but a way […]

Long-Term Care Workforce Webinar – 24 Feb 2026

Long-Term Care Workforce: International Research on Recruitment and Retention

At the rim of the world: Love in the world of care.

Love is not a word you will find in most policy documents. It does not feature in strategic frameworks, regulatory standards, or workforce planning spreadsheets. It is too soft, too […]

A sense of betrayal: social care and the SNP Government.

There are moments in public life when the gap between rhetoric and reality becomes so wide that it can no longer be bridged by warm words, sympathetic tones, or polished […]

Care at Home and Housing Support Awards 2026 – Open for entries!

Entries Now Open: 2026 National Care at Home and Housing Support Awards!

Loneliness: Scotland’s quiet Public Health crisis

Walk any Scottish street and you will find, behind the closed doors and neat hedges, someone who feels profoundly alone. Age Scotland’s 2025 report puts it starkly: almost half […]

Planting what outlives us: on legacy and ageing.

There is a moment, often somewhere in our 50s or 60s when the future shifts its angle. The horizon draws closer, the noise recedes, and a quieter question makes itself […]

Webinar: How do we define, evidence and improve social care -19 Feb

How do we define, evidence and improve social care in Scotland? Learning from qualitative research

SSSC Open Badges for Care Home Activity

Scottish Care are excited to announce the launch of two brand-new SSSC Open Badges designed to empower care home managers and activity leads across Scotland.

Care Creates: A Call to Action and a Vision for Scotland’s Future

The third Saturday of January 2026 arrives not with celebration, but with a heavy sense of reckoning. The Scottish Government’s newly announced Budget, for all its rhetoric of renewal, has […]

Scottish Care responds to Scottish Budget

Scottish Care: “This Budget Fails the People Who Rely on Social Care Support – and Those Who Deliver It”

Bereavement and belonging: a call for constructive compassion.

The turning of the year always invites reflection and an opportunity to consider both personal and societal priorities and ambitions. It offers us an opportunity to reflect not only on […]

The Bereavement Charter for Scotland – Manifesto

The Bereavement Charter for Children and Adults in Scotland has published their manifesto with the following asks for the next Scottish Parliament.

Human Rights Priorities for AI in Social Care: A Scottish Perspective

As the calendar turns and we stand at the threshold of a new year, I find myself drawn to reflection not least on what I consider to have been the […]

Four days to Hogmanay: a Scotland that cares

Four days before Hogmanay, Scotland feels like a country holding its breath. The streets glisten with frost after what feels like weeks of rain, a growing number of hills wear […]

Hope in the midst of uncertainty: a Christmas meditation on social care

The frost clings to the windows of a care home. Inside, a carer hums a carol, her voice soft against the hum of an oxygen machine. A resident stares at […]