Charity slams care home report after inspectors criticise Covid-19 practices

Kenny MacAskill has criticised the Scottish Government for “failing” to hand over all the papers in the Alex Salmond probe. MacAskill rejected claims some information had to be censored and backed a Holyrood committee’s demands for full disclosure.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland have confirmed that their Dumbarton shop will be closed permanently.The store and community base opened in 2017, offering community groups a meeting space as well as free tea, coffee and wifi alongside the usual discount store.However bosses at the charity have now been left “devastated” after being forced to close the store.This has been put down to a substantial drop

Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance chief executive David Craig has been shortlisted for a prestigious national recognition award.The charity’s boss, who lives in Livingston, joined SCAA in 2015 and is one of seven people shortlisted for the Charity Leader of the Year title in the Charity Times Awards 2020.The winner will be revealed at an online ceremony on September 3.David (46) said he was “delighted and honoured” to be shortlisted for this leading sector recognition.He said: “It’s very humbling

Neil Ritch, Scotland director, The National Lottery Community Fund, said in these uncertain times, its priority is to ensure National Lottery money continues to flow to charities, voluntary sector organisations and grassroots groups.He added: “I would like to congratulate Craigsfarm Community Hub on the work they are doing.“Theirs is an important project that will support people now during the current crisis, and in the future when they can physically come back together to make great things

care home residents will be able to receive more visits from friends and family from Monday, it was confirmed today. Up to three outdoor visitors from no more than two households will be allowed - if the home meets infection control criteria.

Perthshire after visitors left a mess at several of its reservoirs. The body said the likes of Loch Turret near Crieff has seen an influx of visitors as lockdown measures have been eased.

union RMT who claim hotel chiefs are using the coronavirus pandemic as a ‘cover’ for brutal job cuts.RMT say they’re ‘stepping up the fight’ as up to 80 jobs are at risk at the US President’s Scottish flagship hotel and golf resort in Ayrshire.Measures also include cuts to sick pay, pay rises, scrapping free meals for staff, temporarily reducing part-time hours and putting full-time workers on a four-day week ‘until the business is operating at pre-Covid 19 levels’.With the consultation period

baby is in a coma after he bit into a washing detergent liquid capsule.10-month-old Pearce Shepherd ingested some of the contents of a capsule while his mum’s back was turned at his family home, in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, on Friday July 31.He was rushed to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow after the toxic chemicals burned his stomach and caused his lungs to swell up with mucous.Mum Melissa Cairney, 27, was at home with her partner, David Shepherd, 36, and their four other

Northern Ireland peace process and hailed as “Ireland’s peacemaker”, has died aged 83. The current SDLP leader Colum Eastwood described him as Ireland’s “most significant and consequential political leader” of the 20th century as tributes poured in.

22 people died from Covid-19 has been hit with a new outbreak of the virus.Five people tested positive for Coronavirus last week at Fullarton care home in Irvine including two members of staff.At the height of the pandemic in May, watchdogs found the home was dirty with poor infection control and not all staff had been trained in the use of PPE.When the Care Inspectorate revisited on July 6, the home had improved but a relative of one resident said the new outbreak was “horrifying”.The relative,

Covid-19 response.We revealed in January how 79-year-old dementia sufferer Irene Marandola was found freezing and badly injured at 2.30am after wandering more than a mile from Kintyre House in Invergordon, Ross-shire.A probe by the Care Inspectorate concluded that the pensioner had been repeatedly failed by her carers and now it has branded the home’s care during the coronavirus pandemic as “weak”.An unannounced inspection in recent weeks raised concerns in relation to the safeguarding of

Two sisters from West Lothian were inspired to ‘walk’ to their cancelled holiday destinations after reading about a woman’s fight with Motor Neurone Disease.Natalie Hughes (38) and Sharon Lee (35) decided to walk the distance from Scotland to Ibiza and Dubai for charity when their trips were cancelled due to the pandemic.The Bathgate sisters are both fitness instructors and rounded up their clients, friends and family to help them complete the 4500 mile distance.They decided to raise money for

Scottish Government 's handling of care homes during the coronavirus crisis breached public health legislation. The Scottish Conservatives have written to Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC, saying ministers' actions have had "harrowing and devastating consequences for the residential care home sector".

East Kilbride.Monica Lennon reported the facility - run by Thistle Healthcare - to the Care Inspectorate in May but in a summary report to the Scottish Parliament shortly after the home was praised for "good infection prevention and control procedures”, despite the "significant outbreak".Ms Lennon said the report left "too many unanswered questions" and was little comfort for grieving families.One of those families features in a BBC Scotland Disclosure documentary airing tonight.In the programme

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.A HEARTLESS Airdrie man who badly neglected two dogs in his care has been given a five-year ban on owning dogs following a Scottish SPCA investigation.Andrew William McPherson admitted he failed to provide a nutritionally adequate diet or veterinary treatment for Zara, a seven-year-old female German Shepherd, and Bobo, a 16-year-old male crossbreed, resulting in the dogs’ welfare being seriously impacted and causing

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.MONKLANDS drive-thru customers are being urged to take their rubbish home to prevent lockdown litter.Environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful has joined forces with fast-food chain McDonald’s and Costa Coffee to encourage customers to put their takeaway litter in the bin, or take it home with them.In a bid to tackle litter waste, more than 100 McDonald’s and Costa drive-thru restaurants in Scotland will display

coronavirus -hit Scots care home has retested positive for the bug. The staff member at the Home Farm care home on the Isle of Skye had been re-tested and found to have Covid-19.