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Wardside House

Provider Wardside House Type Care Home Service Location Crieff Last graded 30 Jul 2026

Recorded Key Question grade range: 3–6 — Adequate  View on Care Inspectorate

Key Question scores

Six-point scale
Support and wellbeing
5
Care and support planning
6
Setting
5
Staff team
3
Leadership
4
Care, play and learning
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Requirements & recommendations

1 requirement · 0 recommendations

Verbatim text from the Care Inspectorate datastore. Requirements cite a specific regulation and deadline; recommendations are good-practice guidance against the Health and Social Care Standards.

Visit: 6 July 2026
Requirement 1

1. By 31 August 2026, to promote people's safety, the provider must ensure safe recruitment practices are in place. This includes having a recruitment policy and being able to demonstrate that: a) Staff are recruited in line with best practice and current Scottish legislation. b) Staff understand their responsibility to apply for and maintain SSSC registration within required timescales. c) Staff are trained and competent to perform their roles. d) Risk assessments are in place for external contractors. e) A clear induction process is implemented for all new staff. This is in order to comply with Regulation 9 (SSI 2011/210) of The Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (Requirements for Care Services Regulations 2011). This is also to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS), which state that: 'I am confident that people who support and care for me have been appropriately and safely

Regulation 9 (SSI 2011/210) · Deadline: 31 August 2026

Conditions of registration

As published by the Care Inspectorate

Number(s) and Age(s) of person(s) to whom service may be provided:
1. The care service will be provided to up to 32 older people.

Registry facts

Service no: CS2003009779
Provider no: SP2003002130
Ownership: Private
Registered places: 32
Registered: 1 April 2002
Council area: Perth & Kinross
Health board: Tayside
Integration authority: Perth and Kinross
Risk band: MEDIUM