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Councillors claim vulnerable residents are being let down by Fife's use of private care staff
Vulnerable Fifers are being failed by private home care companies at weekends, it has been claimed. (...)
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Balhousie Care Group leaving Forfar for new Perth headquarters
Balhousie Care Group has revealed ambitious expansion plans as it announced it is moving to new headquarters in Perth. (...)
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Balhousie Care Group — 18 of 22 homes to see price hikes
A Forfar-based care company is to increase its fees by over 8%. (...)
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Deadline for Southern Cross homes missed
Southern Cross residents have been left in limbo after a deadline to appoint new care home operators was missed. (...)
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Privatisation 'only option on the table' for Fife's care homes — councillor
The row over Fife Council's plans to privatise all 10 of its care homes shows no signs of abating after an opposition councillor rubbished the suggestion they could be taken over by the voluntary sector. (...)
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PriceWaterhouseCoopers' advice on making a profit from care homes
It is possible to provide good care and make money, it has been claimed. (...)
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Councillor accused of hypocrisy and double standards over Fife Council care homes
Fife's SNP social work spokesman has hit back in the row over the future of council-run care homes, accusing the main opposition party of "hypocrisy and double standards" by continuing to criticise the plans. (...)
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National watchdog calls for 'radical change' in care of vulnerable adults
A national care regulator has called for a "radical change in culture" to protect vulnerable adults. (...)
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Man fears how possible Southern Cross collapse would affect care home
As Britain's biggest care home group struggles to stay afloat, financial wheeling and dealing is dominating the headlines. But in all of the group's care homes across Tayside, uncertainty is blighting the lives of individuals. Marjory Inglis spoke to one relative with a wife in an Angus care home. (...)
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Late bid to block Fife Council's care homes plan defeated
A last-ditch bid to stop the privatisation of care homes in Fife failed as the council approved measures to help plug a £127 million gap in its capital investment plan. (...)
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Alex Salmond accused of sending mixed messages on role of private care home providers
Alex Salmond's personal backing of the decision to privatise Fife Council's care homes shows the Scottish Government has "no clear strategy" on the subject, Labour leader Iain Gray has claimed. (...)
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First Minister stands behind Fife Council's decision to privatise care homes
Alex Salmond has given his personal backing to Fife Council's controversial decision to privatise care home provision. (...)
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Fife Council urged to rethink private sector care homes plan in light of Southern Cross problems
Fife Council is coming under increased pressure to abandon its plans to privatise the region's care home services. (...)
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Ninewells Hospital's 'Mrs V' case prompts national action on care of dementia patients
Inspection teams are to be sent into Scottish hospitals in a bid to ensure there is no repeat of the "woefully inadequate" care given to a dementia patient in Dundee. (...)
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Private care home plans are attacked by Alex Salmond
SNP-led Fife Council's plans to privatise care homes were branded "untenable" after First Minister Alex Salmond attacked such moves. (...)
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Southern Cross crisis should inform council care home plans
A major financial crisis at one of the UK's biggest care home providers should act as a "stark warning" to Fife Council over its plans to privatise provision, it has been claimed. (...)
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Profile: presiding officer Tricia Marwick
The Courier's David Clegg looks at the political career of Fife MSP, and now presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament, Tricia Marwick. (...)
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Hopes that change in administration could save Fife Council care homes
A Fife councillor campaigning to keep the council's care homes has declared they are still open for business. (...)
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'Lend-a-hand' schemes part of proposals to reduce Dundee care placements
A private care homes leader has signed up to a plan that will cut care home placements in Dundee. (...)
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RAF Leuchars and care homes the hottest topics at Courier's North East Fife hustings
There were heated exchanges as the future of RAF Leuchars and Fife Council's "scandalous" handling of the care home saga were forced to the top of the political agenda at The Courier's hustings in Cupar. (...)
