Report on Serious Incident Reviews

The Care Inspectorate has today published a report on Criminal Justice Social Work Serious Incident Reviews.

Serious Incident Reviews are carried out by local authority criminal justice social work services to make sure lessons are learned if things go wrong when an offender is on licence or some other form of supervision. The report has highlighted areas of successful good practice across Scotland, but also made recommendations where further improvements should be made. 


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Joint inspection of services for older people in Glasgow

A joint inspection of services for older people in Glasgow has praised the quality of some services, but also made ten recommendations for improvement.

The joint inspection was carried out by a team of inspectors from the Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland.


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Social care regulator publishes review of its first three years

The Care Inspectorate, Scotland’s social care scrutiny and improvement body, has today published a review of the first three years of its work. 

 The organisation was set up in April 2011 and has since carried out more than 30,000 inspections of care services, complaint investigations and registrations. 


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Tackling Disability Hate Crime

The Tackling Disability Hate Crime Group have issued a letter to providers to highlight the work that they do and the resources available. 


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Scottish Social Services Council registration

The Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have issued joint guidance on the legal requirement for staff to register with the SSSC within a six month period. 


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