Climate action

The Health and Social Care Academy are at the forefront of highlighting climate action, especially in relation to the cost of living crisis. As a result, there has been progress made in highlighting the challenges faced by the current economic system and how this has created barriers to climate action.

This includes looking at how transformational change can be achieved, with focuses on a more sustainable system that champions wellbeing as a model for social and economic prosperity.

The Academy highlighted this in a cost of living report, ‘Disabled People, Unpaid Carers and the Cost of Living Crisis: Impacts, Responses and Long Term Solutions’, whilst in the run-up to COP26 in 2021, roundtable events were organised in partnership with Scottish Care to raise awareness of the role that social care can play in supporting sustainability actions and taking climate action. Following the series the ‘Climate Action and the Social Care Collective’ report was published, which outlined key principles and calls to action. Related areas of recent work conducted by the Academy relating to climate action have included calls for investing in the social care workforce, the planning and delivery of care and calls to embed climate commitments within systems.

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