The Care Inspectorate, alongside its partners in Healthcare Improvement Scotland and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland, has published its Inspection Report of Adult Support and Protection within the Highland Partnership.
Joint Inspections aim to provide national assurance about individual local partnership areas’ effective operations of adult support and protection key processes, and leadership for adult support and protection.
Garry Coutts, Independent Chair of the Highland Adult Protection Committee, said: “We are pleased that the inspection report has concluded that there are effective adult support and protection practices across the Highland Partnership.
“The report highlights our practice was person-centred, and there have been clear improvements from the previous inspection.
“We are aware of the improvement areas identified in the report and we are working to develop a plan to address these.
“I would really like to thank our teams across social work and social care, health and the police who have delivered improvements to Adult Protection in Highland. This has been achieved at a particularly challenging time when they have also been dealing with the impact of COVID-19 and significant pressures on their budgets.
“As independent chair, I believe people in Highland should take considerable comfort from this report as well as the commitment the whole partnership is making to achieving further improvements.”
Read the Joint Inspection of Adult Support and Protection report here.
Read more about adult support and protection on this website.