Blog: The Growing a Good Life Team are now on social media
By Heather Edwards, AHP Consultant
Last year, a new Health and Social Care Improvement Team was formed within the Care Inspectorate to play a critical role in supporting services to provide safe, high-quality care and support. Our programme of work sits under the banner of Growing a Good Life.
We now have two new social media feeds on Facebook and Twitter that we hope will help many more people who are experiencing care to grow a good quality of life.
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Blog: My New Home - Supporting people with a learning disability and advancing dementia moving into a care home
Blog by Sharon Ward (Inspector)
I was involved in writing this new joint guidance. I had previous experience of developing services for people living with learning disabilities and dementia. This gave me insight into what worked in practice, as well as the pitfalls and barriers to people experiencing good outcomes.
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Joint inspection of adult support and protection in South Lanarkshire
A joint inspection of adult support and protection measures in South Lanarkshire has found clear strengths in ensuring adults at risk of harm are safe, protected and supported.
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Inquiry into adult carers’ experiences of social work and social care services
The Care Inspectorate has undertaken an inquiry into adult carers’ experiences of adult social work and social care services.
The report highlights the need for improvement in support of adult unpaid carers and makes a series of recommendations. Inspectors from the Care Inspectorate carried out this work between March and July 2022.
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Joint letter from the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)
Dear Colleagues
As we head towards the end of the year and into the busy winter period, we want to express our sincere gratitude to staff working in social work, social care and children and young people’s services throughout the country for their continuing professionalism and commitment to caring for some of the most vulnerable people in our communities in the most challenging of circumstances.
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