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Medicines Recall: Emerade adrenaline auto-injectors

Pharmaswiss Česka republika s.r.o. and distributor Bausch & Lomb UK Limited is recalling all unexpired batches of Emerade 500 micrograms and Emerade 300 micrograms adrenaline auto-injectors (also referred to as pens) from patients. For more information click here.

Receiving communications from the Care Inspectorate

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If you receive an email from someone purporting to be someone from the Care Inspectorate using another email address - such as gmail.com, yahoo.co.uk, outlook.com etc - please treat this with care as it is not an official communication from the Care Inspectorate.

National review of the experiences of disabled children and young people

We have notified all chief social work officers that the Care Inspectorate is undertaking a national review of the experiences of disabled children and young people. The review will provide an overview of social work’s contribution to how well disabled children and young people’s needs are assessed, planned for, and met. Our work commences in May 2023 and concludes in May 2024. For more information please click here.

Review of Key Question 7 and the self-evaluation tool on restrictive practices

We are currently reviewing Key Question 7 (KQ7) for the following service types:

Secure accommodation services
Mainstream boarding schools and school hostels
Care homes for children and young people and school care accommodation (special residential schools)

We are also reviewing the use and impact of the self-evaluation tool on restrictive practices for services this applies to.

Equalities mainstreaming report published

We have published a report on progress we have made on the equality outcomes we have committed to deliver. Equality is a part of everything we do and this report demonstrates how we are mainstreaming equality by integrating it into our day-to-day working and core functions.

Read the report here.