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The SNP has been accused of breaking a pre-election pledge to tackle a “dementia tax” by doubling support for self-funding care home residents.

The SNP has been accused of breaking a pre-election pledge to tackle a “dementia tax” by doubling support for self-funding care home residents.

THREE out of every four care home places are now provided by private companies, according to new data which reveals the growing privatisation of…

Scotland could create the worlds first fully integrated health and social care system if the parliaments "full powers are realised",…

SCOTS with advanced dementia cannot wait until the new National Care Service is set up to benefit from fairer care home costs, a charity leader has…

Susan Rice Dame Susan Rice is another veteran financier who combines banking and business interests with roles on public boards interest in the arts. She is chair of Scottish Water and the Scottish Fiscal Commission.  As chief executive, and then chair of Lloyds TSB Scotland, she became the first woman to head a UK clearing bank in 2000. In 2012, she was also the first woman elected as president of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. She has long been respected by governme...

SCOTLAND needs to take urgent action to fill a £10.66bn black hole in budgets over the next 14 years to make revolutionary changes to adult social…

FUNDING and difficulties in recruiting staff will throw up barriers to reforming Scotlands social care system, the public spending watchdog has…

Scottish election 2021: What is in Nicola Sturgeons in-tray? By Douglas Fraser Published image copyrightPA Media A reshuffle and the Covid crisis, followed by an referendum, are top of the first ministers to do list, but there will also have to be work done on the independence proposition. Theres a daunting list, also, of public service reforms, economic priorities led by shifting energy markets, and the setting up of a national care service. The first ministers in-tray has to be a robust struc...

UNIONS have called for urgent reform of the care sector in Scotland as it emerged one in ten are on zero hours contracts. A new analysis by the Scottish Trades Union Congress has raised concern that one in five are on non-permanent contracts and called for an end to what it described as "low pay and exploitative working processes" which have had "fatal consequences" through the Covid crisis. And it is concerned that the ten care providers in Scotland with the highest Covid death totals we...