Call for input: ALLIANCE response to the National Care Service Bill
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 24th August 2022
Members are invited to give feedback on the ALLIANCE's draft response to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee on the NCS Bill.
The Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee is currently seeking views on the draft National Care Service Bill (this link will take you away from our website). The Scottish Government want to create a National Care Service that will change how adult social care is delivered, and which may include children’s and justice social work services too. Further proposals in the bill include introducing a right to breaks for carers and allowing information sharing between the National Care Service and the NHS.
The ALLIANCE previously responded to the Scottish Government’s initial consultation before the legislation was published. The opportunity to improve social care is welcome – and should draw heavily on the experiences and expertise of disabled people, people living with long term conditions, unpaid carers and the third sector. The ALLIANCE believes that it is essential to embed equality, human rights, and co-production in the proposed National Care Service in order to achieve transformational and positive change that works for everyone.
Priorities in the draft response include:
- Embedding lived experience and co-production at the heart of policy.
- Integrating equality and human rights across all parts of the social care system.
- Support, involvement and resourcing for third sector.
- Ensuring disaggregated data gathering and intersectional analysis to support equitable access to social care.
- Stronger commitments to human rights and co-production, for example voting rights on and membership of care boards and in developing the National Care Service Charter.
- Commitment to collect and publish intersectional data and analysis, including people’s experiences of care.
- Clearer definitions of independent advocacy and ethical commissioning.
- Improvement of care records section.
Members are invited to contribute to our response. If you have feedback that you would like to share with us, please email any comments and suggestions to Hannah Tweed, Senior Policy Officer, at hannah.tweed@alliance-scotland.org.uk by 5pm on Tuesday 30 August.
The draft response is available via the link below.
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