The National Care Standards are the baseline for measuring the quality of care in residential establishments in Scotland. This study was funded by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, the body charged with the responsibility of inspecting children's homes in Scotland. It set out to...
The National Care Standards describe what each child or young person can expect from their residential care home in Scotland. The Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care (SCRC) invited the Scottish Institute of Residential Child Care to carry out a study eliciting the views of young people...
Foster Care Fortnight, in June 1999, saw the launch in England of new national standards for foster care by Social Services Minister John Hutton. Later in the year, when new administrations are up and running following parliamentary and assembly elections in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, ...
In Scotland, the museum sector is overseen by Museums Galleries Scotland, formerly the Scottish Museums Council. Their planning shows that there has been strategic recognition of the role of digital content and digitisation since at least 2000, when work began on a national ICT strategy (Scottish ...
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Although recognised as one of the most efficient health-care systems globally, the NHS has a culture of regular and significant reorganisation based on political priorities. This affects the clinical and economic framework within which secondary fracture prevention ...
We look at the quality of care in Scotland to ensure it meets high standards. When improvement is needed, we support services to make positive changes.
In Scotland, there is currentangerover the intrusive ‘named person’ laws which lack both professional and public support and intrude on privacy.Concerns raisedshould be lessons to learn from in England. Common sense says laws must take into account social legitimacy. ...
National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland): Pioneering Work to Influence Policy Making or Tinkering at the Edges? This article examines the creation of the National Information Literacy Framework for Scotland, from its original concept linking secondary and tertiary ed... Irving,Christine - 《Li...
(RCOphth) is responsible for professional standards in the practice of ophthalmology for the benefit of the general public.13 The National Ophthalmology Database (NOD)14 has been created under its auspices to collate anonymised data collected as a by-product of routine clinical care using EMR. Th...
THE NHS operates through four systems which are funded from allocations by the British Parliament to the NHS England which gives block grants to the independently administered individual systems: National Health Service (England); Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland (HSCNI); NHS Scotland; and...