Social welfare
Caring about Children
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Podcast
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Child and early years care in Scotland is a patchwork. Tthe latest Programme for Government perpetuates that. Things could be greatly improved by a strategic and holistic plan for care sitting within a National Care Service.
What can the Scottish Parliament do with new social security powers?
Author / Creator: Paul Spicker
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: February 2016
Scotland will not be able to experiment and to innovate under the current devolution of social security powers.
Empty Promise?
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Policy Paper
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The Promise for family support and child care away from home needs a strategic standpoint integrating the relevant services.
Child Care or Caring About Children?
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Policy Paper
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Scotland has a system of support for children in their early years which is a patchwork of initiatives, fixes, legacy services and omissions. What we do not have is a single, well thought- through integrated service. This is what Scotland’s children need.
Two thousand deaths later, has infection control in care homes improved?
Author / Creator: Nick Kempe
Media type: Report
Date published:
Nick Kempe investigates the Care Inspectorate’s attempts to assess the ongoing response in Scottish care homes to the Covid-19 pandemic.
While some care homes have improved, concerns about the quality of data being gathered and the way in which care homes are being reassessed remain. For example, staff in care homes are still not being properly trained in infection control.