There is distrust of Scotland’s Care Inspectorate among owners and managers of well-resourced care homes for older people which deliver a consistently-high standard of care – where the owner has a background in nursing or care and plays a key role in the provision of care or where residents in commercially-viable care homes can enjoy…
Scotland’s Parliament takes the Care Inspectorate on trust
Why social care outcomes in Scotland depend on LUCK! The nature of people’s relationships with their social workers in Scotland is a topic which animates our subscribers. People should be able to expect these relationships to be positive and productive. But, increasingly over the years, the poor social care outcomes being delivered by social workers…
Of misplaced trust. Of bureaucracy & cover-up. Of a social care system paying lip service to the needs of Scotland’s most vulnerable. Extract V: Scotland’s hippie dippie Care Inspectorate From the sitting room window, I watched the RSPCA van pull into the care home car park. On impulse, I smiled and waved in its general…
Of misplaced trust. Of bureaucracy & cover-up. Of a social care system paying lip service to the needs of Scotland’s most vulnerable. Extract IV: ‘Control, not Care’ in commercially-unviable care homes for older people in Scotland Dr Well-Beloved I call her Dr Well-beloved for all sorts of reasons. For being completely unfazed when I rocked…
Ticking time-bombs at the heart of Scotland’s social care system! Increasingly, the people best-placed to monitor social care delivery and provision in Scotland find themselves stonewalled when they reach out to their local authority or to Scotland’s social care regulator, the Care Inspectorate, when things go wrong for them or for a family member or…
Of misplaced trust. Of bureaucracy & cover-up. Of a social care system paying lip service to the needs of Scotland’s most vulnerable. Extract III: caught in the Council’s social care web My heart sank on seeing myself back where I was three years ago, listening to a social worker bent on persuading me to agree…
Of misplaced trust. Of bureaucracy & cover-up. Of a social care system paying lip service to the needs of Scotland’s most vulnerable. Extract II: this great age! I was 96 years old and locked-up in a care home when the abuse began so, although I may have wanted to run away – flight was out…
Of misplaced trust. Of bureaucracy & cover-up. Of a social care system paying lip service to the needs of Scotland’s most vulnerable. Extract I: being silenced “They would pull my nipples and laugh!” I was sitting at the kitchen table in my son’s flat. “They thought it amusing!” My son stared at the newspaper in…
Silence is compliance! Although Scotland’s adult social care system routinely fails those it was intended to support, the proposed National Care Service for Scotland was voted down at Holyrood for reasons that defy logic. For social care service users, this issue could determine how they vote in the forthcoming elections. The current system is so…
HELP TO SHINE A LIGHT ON SCOTLAND’S BROKEN SOCIAL CARE SYSTEM! Twenty years ago, the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act, 2002, enshrined in law the statutory entitlement to Free Personal Care for those who qualified. In its wisdom, the Implementation Steering Group determined that “It is for the individual local authority to decide how…