Ready to Read

Encouraging children to develop language skills, read, and enjoy books at an early age is vital – and the earlier the better.

That’s the message from Scotland’s nursery inspectors as they back a campaign to improve children’s early language skills .


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The Soil Association Care Catering Mark:

Improving care through food – get your catering certified by the Soil Association

Good food is vitally important to people in care. It can enrich their experience of care as well as supporting their health and wellbeing.  The Soil Association’s Catering Mark lets your residents, staff and relatives know that the food you serve is fresh, healthy, sustainable and nutritious. It’s a recognised mark of quality that gives an independent seal of approval to the hard work you do. 


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Care News - Winter 2016/17

The Winter 2016/17 issue of Care News is out now.


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Youth Development Worker vacancy

Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum (Staf) are recruiting a Youth Development Worker to work on a new project across East Ayrshire (Kilmarnock base) and at their offices in Glasgow.


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Improvement Notice - Homecare Support, Edinburgh

A care at home service in Edinburgh has been told to make urgent improvements in the care it provides to vulnerable people. 

The Care Inspectorate has served a formal Improvement Notice on Homecare Support, an independent provider of home care based in Lower Granton Road. It follows an inspection of the service which raised concerns.

The notice lists three areas which require urgent improvement by March 31 2017: visit times, medication and staff training.


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