National Carer Organisations - National Care Service Position Statement
22 October 2024
The National Carer Organisations recognise the need for social care reform in order that Scotland’s unpaid carers can be better and more consistently supported.
They welcomed the findings of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care and in particular the recommendations that it made in relation to key areas that are important to unpaid carers including the right to a break from caring, care home visiting, improved pay and conditions for the social care workforce, providing carer representatives on Integrated Joint Boards with a vote, and ethical commissioning. They were pleased to see these recommendations take shape in the National Care Service (NCS) Bill and progress being made towards making new rights a reality.
While they recognise that the development of legislation takes time, they are concerned that the slow and protracted progress of the NCS Bill means that the reform needed by Scotland’s carers is getting further and further away, and they know that carers can’t wait.
They want to see more urgent progress being made on key provisions within the Bill which do not rely on primary legislation but instead could be brought in ahead of a National Care Service. This includes the Right to a Break from Caring, Anne’s Law, and ending care charging.
To read the full position statement by the National Carer Organisations, please click here.
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