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15 June 2025
Council agrees enhanced package for foster carers to kick start recruitment drive
Orkney Islands Council has given its backing to a raft of new measures to better support foster carers to allow them to best meet the needs of children in their care.
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15 June 2025
Thinking about fostering – “go for it”, say the Walker family!
“You can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone” - is an ethos the Walker family in Orkney live by, and which saw them become foster carers to children and young people in the county.
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12 June 2025
Join the Smiddybrae family for 20th birthday fun this Saturday!
The Orkney public is warmly invited to help celebrate twenty years since the opening of Smiddybrae House care home in Dounby, at a special event on Saturday 14 June.
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26 May 2025
A 'fortnight of focus' on carers for Dementia and Carers weeks
Orkney’s carers are the focus of the next fortnight as nationally Dementia Week and then Carers Week take place – with local organisations hosting events aimed at highlighting support available…
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6 May 2025
Staff team ‘motivated and embracing change’ to drive improvements at St Rognvalds
An unannounced visit by the Care Inspectorate to St Rognvalds Care Home has found management oversight has improved and staff are motivated and embracing change needed to improve care, according to a…
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21 March 2025
Icing on the cake for the West Mainland Day Centre as they scoop The Great Orkney Bake Off 2025 title
Baking a Victoria Sponge was a piece of cake for some of our supported care service users as they took part in The Great Orkney Bake Off recently.
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19 March 2025
A mother’s story - bereaved mum hopes SOS Orkney app will prevent further loss to suicide
The phone call no parent should ever receive. A decision no family should ever have to make.
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19 March 2025
SOS Orkney – suicide prevention app launches in the county
A suicide prevention app – SOS Orkney – has been launched in the county to help people stay safe from suicide.
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17 March 2025
Families living with dementia urged to sign up to the Herbert Protocol
Dementia has robbed Orkney’s Sarah Kennedy of both her parents.
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13 March 2025
Council agrees enhanced package for foster carers to kick start recruitment drive
Orkney Islands Council has given its backing to a raft of new measures to better support foster carers to allow them to best meet the needs of children in their care.
