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A fortnight of footballing hope and familiar disappointment, and a week of political churn and a ‘Manchester Messiah’. It is never a dull time!
Over the last two weeks there has been sustained activity across political change, policy engagement, partnership working and lots of meetings! What follows is a synthesis of the key areas of focus and their implications for me...
There is a phrase that returns again and again when we speak of care work and the stresses that carers face, both paid and unpaid, “You must look after yourself too.” It is well meant. It is frequently spoken. And yet, for far too many who work in social care, it feels like an instruction spoken into impossibility.
Because how do you practise self-care when the shift d...
One of the words I use an awful lot in the work I do, perhaps too easily, is home.
We speak of care homes, of homely environments, of supporting people to remain at home. We build policy, services and expectations around this idea of home as if its meaning were fixed, universally understood and uncomplicated.
But for many, home is not a place of ease. It is some...
Generations Working Together (GWT), in partnership with Scottish Care, is offering a cohort of twelve care home managers from across Scotland the opportunity to attend Day 1 and 2 of the Global Intergenerational Congress taking place in Glasgow on the 29th & 30th September 2026....
A group of sheltered housing tenants known as the Leith Legends have completed an inspiring 3,070-mile walking challenge ahead of Scotland’s FIFA World Cup campaign.
Aged between 60 and 95, the group marked their final mile with a walk from the Royal Mile to the Scottish Parliament on 11 June, celebrating the end of a journey that began earlier this ye...