Challenge and change: the future of social care in Scotland
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 17th May 2022
The ALLIANCE has published an anthology of Opinions about key priorities for the proposed National Care Service.
On 9 August 2021 the Scottish Government launched their consultation on proposals for a National Care Service for Scotland. Between January and April 2022, the ALLIANCE published a series of Opinions from across the third and independent sectors, focused on the authors’ key concerns and priorities for the proposed National Care Service.
We have now compiled these Opinions into an anthology (available here), to further inform discussion about the future of social care in Scotland. As the contributors to this anthology show, the challenges for those delivering and accessing social care have been long standing – and further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Change is urgently needed.
The National Care Service offers both risk and opportunities. To mitigate the former, and take full advantage of the latter, we must prioritise the expertise of people with lived experience of social care, improve our data collection and analysis, and reform current funding models. At every stage, those designing, developing, and delivering the proposed new system should consider: how will this improve the lives of people accessing – or trying to access – and delivering social care?
We cannot miss this opportunity, and we don’t have the time to wait.
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