Care in Crisis: New Report and Conference Urge Rethink on Homecare Support
The annual Scottish Care at Home and Housing Support Conference & Exhibition is scheduled to take place on Friday 16 May 2025 at Radisson Blu in Glasgow. Organised and hosted […]
Launch of Social Care Principles
We are proud to launch the principles that will guide the development of our manifesto for the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections
Media Release: Scottish Care Condemns Plans to Scrap Social Care Visas
‘Reckless and Inhumane’: Scottish Care Condemns Plans to Scrap Social Care Visas
In celebration of International Nurses Day – the humanity of relational nursing in social care.
In a couple of days’ time on the 12th May we will mark International Nurses Day 2025, and once again people will be invited on the birthday of that inspirational […]
“Whose voice is heard?” The media and social care.
There are a lot of journalists in my extended family and indeed journalism and writing has always been very important within the wider family. At one time as much younger […]
Nominations Now Open for the Inaugural Care Tech Assembly Awards 2025
We’re thrilled to launch the first-ever Care Tech Assembly Awards 2025.
The National Care Service – Where Now?
Six sector membership organisations have joined together to produce a paper to help drive urgently needed reform of social care now, as the 2026 Scottish election approaches, and in the next Parliament.;
Vaccinations save lives: its time to make the sell.
“It is more than just a jag for some of us it has meant a new lease of life.” Those were comments which I heard many years ago from someone […]
Bridging the Generational Gap: The Power of Intergenerational Working in Care
In the social care sector, we are acutely aware of the profound impact that human connection has on wellbeing. In a sector often focused on clinical outcomes and care routines, […]
New Report: Overcoming Qualification Barriers in Scottish Social Care
Scottish Care has launched its latest report, “Overcoming Qualification Barriers in Scottish Social Care: A Survey Analysis”.
A Good Anger: when the flame of change refuses to die: An Easter reflection.
Well, here we are at the Easter weekend – and on that intriguing day of Easter Saturday – lying as it does between pain and promise. Recently I’ve been doing […]
The dawning of a Convention: a turning point for the rights of older persons
As regular readers of this blog will know there are very few occasions when I get the opportunity to be celebratory or even positive these days given the state of […]
Finalists Revealed for the 2025 Care at Home & Housing Support Awards!
Care at Home & Housing Support Awards 2025 finalists revealed.
Reforming the NHS in Scotland? Not without social care you won’t.
It’s been a funny old week of oscillating emotions from a day in which I spent talking about how social care has the potential to be the economic driver of […]
Can Ai enhance the humanness of care? The place of ethics and the unfolding of dignity.
This past week I spent a couple of days in Oxford with colleagues from around the UK exploring the responsible and ethical use of Ai in social care. It was […]
Finding happiness at all ages: a reflection on happiness and social care.
The other day I happened to be in conversation with an individual late in years – in fact in his nineties – who opined the view that “Happiness is for […]
The kitchen table: the critical role of nutrition and hydration at the heart of social care.
One thing we seem to do very well in Scotland is to produce well written legislation and policy intervention perhaps with the recent exception of the National Care Service Bill! […]
Celebrating care: a reflection for International Women’s Day.
Today is International Women’s Day and the theme for this annual day in 2025 is “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” It’s a theme which calls for action […]
Scottish Care Calls for Urgent Action Following IJB Finance Report
Today’s report on the financial state of Scotland’s Integration Joint Boards makes for disturbing reading