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Carr Gomm on the BBC

Carr Gomm features in a new three part, UK-wide BBC documentary – Darren McGarvey: The State We’re In. Carr Gomm welcomed Scottish rapper and social commentator, Darren McGarvey...

Welcoming Anne-Louise Hayden to Carr Gomm

Anne-Louise Hayden is appointed as Carr Gomm’s Senior Operations Manager for Rural Services.

Laura: My Autism Story (Part 2)

Step into the next chapter of Laura Jackson’s (Administration Officer for Dundee) Autism Story.

Denise Murdoch MBE retires

Denise Murdoch, our Senior Operations Manager for Argyll & Bute and Highland, is retiring after nearly 25 years of working at Carr Gomm.

Carr Gomm’s Becs Barker gives evidence to the Scottish Parliament on SDS

Becs Barker, Carr Gomm's Operations Manager for Community Contacts, Involvement, Quality and Innovation, gave evidence on behalf of social care providers on whether Self-Directed...

Scottish Minister responds to Carr Gomm’s call for social care wage uplift

Maree Todd MSP (Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport) has responded to Carr Gomm’s letter which calls for the Scottish Government to close the unjust pay gap...

Has Scotland’s Self-Directed Support Act achieved its ambitions?

Carr Gomm, our National Involvement Group and the Community Contacts project have shared with the Scottish Parliament whether Self-Directed Support Legislation (SDS) has realised...

Social Care Wage Uplift – Letter to the First Minister

Lucy Wren, our Chief Executive, has written to the First Minister calling for the Scottish Government's Fair Work agenda to be realised in social care. As our letter explains,...

Will a National Care Service recognise digital inclusion as a human right?

Shannon McNee, our Digital Inclusion Development Manager, asks how a National Care Service can recognise digital inclusion as fundamental to people's human rights. Disabled...

Festive food donations delivered to Community Pantry in Edinburgh.

David, one of our fantastic Community Link Workers, organised a food drive with Milton GP Surgery in the east of Edinburgh. Food donated to this drive was then dropped off at the...

It’s time to change the narrative on ‘bed blocking’

The phrase ‘bed-blocking’ is currently bandied around in the media as people try to make sense of increasingly long A&E waiting times and surgery cancellations. When you stop...