Elderly provision in Fife should be inspected in similar ways to the region’s schools, councillors in Glenrothes have said.
Members of the Glenrothes area committee have said that more transparency is required to ensure that the public is suitably informed about the quality of care home provision in the area.
The demand was made as officers from Fife Council’s social work team updated local representatives on recent inspections undertaken by the Care Inspectorate at day care and support services in the town.
While all were deemed to be performing at reasonable standards, with some achieving top marks in several categories, councillors said that they were concerned that some services did not appear to have any desire to improve the quality of care they provided year-on-year.
Councillor Kay Morrison, along with several others, said that she would like to see inspection reports published in a similar manner to schools and given increased prominence with the public.
“Schools have a culture of constant improvement,” she said.
“Every member of staff in a school knows that the expectation is to aspire to that.”
Louise Bell, Fife Council’s manager of residential and day services, said that the reporting strategy used in schools was something that could be adopted in the future.
She said: “We work with private businesses and they have their own culture.
“They don’t seem to have stability at the top for constant improvement.
She added: “I am sure there are things we can learn from schools and we will look at that model.”