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This year, a key focus is on older people’s mental health, and one of the really interesting phenomena that we have seen in our visits so far—particularly to Shetland and Grampian—has been the range of additional and new third sector and community services that are appearing as a consequence of the change fund.
The UK Government’s programme timescales had a direct impact on the Scottish regulations, since they rely on UK-wide shared technical and operational infrastructure (the new Home Energy Model (HEM) calculation methodology and Energy Calculation as a Service (ECaas) system within the new digital EPC Register).
When a care home in the west Highlands closes, it means that a person is likely to have to take a six-hour round trip to visit their mum in the next-nearest care home.
“STV News” revealed that as many as 300 Afghans remain in temporary and bridging accommodation in different parts of this country as work to resettle them continues.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 January 2020
There are some circumstances where short visits are appropriate, such as providing medication prompts, and these should be in line with delivering for people's outcomes.