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  2. Social care in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Social care in Scotland. Social care in Scotland encompasses social work; care home services in the community for adults, children and young people; and services for young children, including nurseries and after-school care clubs .

  3. Social Security Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Social Security Scotland pays this automatically every six months, in June and December, without the need for applications. This payment launched in September 2018 and will run until Scottish Government plans for a new Carer's Allowance are in place. From April 2023, Carer's Allowance Supplement increased to £270.50 for each payment.

  4. Work and Families Act 2006 - Wikipedia

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    Work and Families Act 2006 [1] Parliament of the United Kingdom. Long title. An Act to make provision about statutory rights to leave and pay in connection with the birth or adoption of children; to amend section 80F of the Employment Rights Act 1996; to make provision about workers' entitlement to annual leave; to provide for the increase in ...

  5. Health and Social Care Partnership - Wikipedia

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    The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014 provides the legislative framework for the integration of health and social care in Scotland.. Ahead of the legislation coming into effect, an Integrated Resource Framework (IRF) was developed and tested, with HSCP models tested in four localities: Highland; Lothian; Ayrshire and Arran; and Tayside.

  6. Quarriers - Wikipedia

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    quarriers.org.uk. Quarriers is a Scottish social care charity based in Quarrier's Village, Inverclyde. It provides care and support for people with a disability, children and families, young people, young homeless people, people with epilepsy and carers. In February 2008 Quarriers was the largest non-church social care charity in Scotland.

  7. Sarah Cunningham-Burley - Wikipedia

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    Cunningham-Burley co-founded the academic journal Families in Society by Bristol University Press. [ 4 ] The University of Edinburgh commissioned her portrait in 1998 which remains as part of the collection in the National Galleries of Scotland .

  8. Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 - Wikipedia

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    The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed on 19 February 2014 and received royal assent on 27 March 2014. [1] The legislation is part of the Scottish Government's Getting it right for every child policy implementation. The scope of the act as described in its long title is to make provision:

  9. Scottish Government - Wikipedia

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    Politics of Scotland. The Scottish Government (Scottish Gaelic: Riaghaltas na h-Alba, pronounced [ˈrˠiə.əl̪ˠt̪əs nə ˈhal̪ˠapə]) is the executive arm of the devolved government of Scotland. [2] It was formed in 1999 as the Scottish Executive following the 1997 referendum on Scottish devolution. [3]