Improvement Notice, Lincluden After School Group

An after school group in Dumfries has been told it must make swift improvements to the care provided to children.


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Summary of Social Work Expenditure for Scotland 2006 – 2015

The Care Inspectorate has today published a statistical summary of social work expenditure and activity for Scotland covering the period 2006/7 to 2014/15.


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Services for children and young people in South Ayrshire

Children and young people are generally safe and well protected because frontline staff across health and social care services in South Ayrshire work well together, inspectors have said, but the leadership and planning of services is weak and needs to improve.


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Meaningful and Measurable Outcomes Project Resources

The Meaningful and Measurable project (Healthcare Improvement Scotland) has produced new evidence about the difference made by focusing on personal outcomes in diverse services, and highlighted critical elements of outcomes focused conversations, recording practices, outcomes measurement and use of outcomes information.


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Joint Inspection of Children’s Services handbook

The Joint Inspection of Children’s Services handbook has been updated with minor changes. These take account of the parts of Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 that have been implemented.


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