As an amendment to motion S6M-15613 in the name of Jackie Baillie (Addressing the Crisis in Social Care Now), leave out from "formally committed" to end and insert "introduced the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill in June 2022 to address the substantial concerns highlighted from the Feeley review, which noted poor and variable levels of social care around the country and the need for nationally enforceable standards of care; further notes that the Bill includes a right to respite care, Anne’s Law and ethical commissioning; welcomes that the Scottish Government is developing a collective bargaining approach for social care in collaboration with local government, trade unions and social care providers and its continued commitment to establishing a National Social Work Agency; acknowledges the open letter from disabled people’s organisations, which states that wholesale reform is so urgently needed; agrees that the service users, their families and carers should be the focus of a National Care Service; deplores that the increase in employer national insurance contributions from the UK Government will negatively impact on care services by increasing the cost to third parties contracted to deliver adult and children’s social care services by almost £90 million and, according to COSLA estimates, to local government by £265 million, and agrees that, if the UK Labour administration does not reimburse this in full, it is the provision of these services that will feel the brunt."
Submitted by: Shirley-Anne Somerville, Dunfermline, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Thursday, December 12, 2024
Submitted by: Jeremy Balfour, Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Date lodged: Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Supported by: George Adam R, Karen Adam R, Clare Adamson R, Alasdair Allan R, Tom Arthur R, Jackie Baillie R, Claire Baker R, Jeremy Balfour R, Colin Beattie R, Neil Bibby R, Sarah Boyack R, Miles Briggs R, Keith Brown R
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Thursday, December 12, 2024
Submitted by: Tom Arthur, Renfrewshire South, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Thursday, December 12, 2024
Submitted by: Siobhian Brown, Ayr, Scottish National Party, Date lodged: Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Thursday, December 12, 2024