Inspector recruitment open days
Come along to one of our Open Days on Thursday 18th October.
- Aberdeen office (48 Huntly Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1SH) from 6.30pm - 8.30pm
or
- Inverness office (Great Glen House, Leachkin Road, Inverness, IV3 8NW) from 11am - 2pm.
We are currently recruiting for Inspectors and this is an ideal opportunity to discuss this with current post-holders.
Team Managers and Senior Inspectors will also be on-hand and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions on an informal basis regarding the benefits of working with the Care Inspectorate.
We look forward to welcoming you to our office.
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Blog: A new team will lead on scrutiny and assurance of community justice and criminal justice social work
By Kevin Mitchell, Executive Director of Scrutiny & Assurance
The Care Inspectorate has now put a new strategic scrutiny team in place to lead on scrutiny and assurance activity for community justice and criminal justice social work in Scotland, following a request from the Scottish Government.
There will be two strands to the team’s work. During 2018-19 one strand will focus on supporting and validating self-evaluation of community justice in Scotland and the other will focus on inspection of criminal justice social work services, with particular attention on community payback orders. Our intention is to provide a transparent and robust approach to scrutiny and inspection.
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MHRA alert
The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have issued the following alert:
Roche Diagnostics GmbH CoaguChek Test Strips for Point of Care and Home Use – risk of false high results
8 October 2018
MHRA Ref: MDA/2018/033
MHRA has published the attached safety alert in partnership with devolved administrations and it applies across the UK. Within Scotland, the alert applies to NHS Boards, local authorities and any contractors providing publicly funded health and social care services.
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Seeing the wood for the trees
As part of our ongoing work with Scottish Government promoting the development of outdoor play for children, we have published ‘Seeing the wood for the trees’.
This is an academic paper that charts how the regulation of early learning and childcare has evolved to improve children’s experience of outdoor play. The paper will contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the scrutiny of care and will be added to the course materials for the Professional Development Award. There is considerable interest in the role that we are playing in supporting the flourishing of outdoor play in Scotland. For example, the Lawson Foundation is funding us to give a keynote address at a conference in Canada and our presentation will be based on this paper.
Read the paper here.
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Services for older people in Aberdeen
Good progress has been made on improving services for older people in Aberdeen, inspectors have said.
The Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland today published a progress review of services for older people in the city after an inspection in 2016 identified “important weaknesses” in some aspects of performance by health and social care services in the city.
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