The Scottish Government is putting a Bill through Parliament to set up a National Care Service (NCS), the bill leaves profiteering at the heart of care, and will outsource a huge range of functions; all of social work and social care out of councils, and an unknown number of responsibilities out of the NHS. This threatens the employment and pensions of tens of thousands of workers, and meaning a huge sum of money will be spent on structural change rather then on improving services.
This page will be a hub for UNISON Scotland’s information and resources about UNISON Scotland’s campaign to have the current Bill withdrawn and for the Scottish Government to start again and come up with plans for aa real national Care Service.
We are asking all UNISON members to contact their MSPs, many of whom are still unaware of what the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill contains.
- You can email your MSPs using this one click link here.
- UNISON Scotland has prepared a short guide to the Bill, its main provisions, and the implications of a measure that is an unequivocal attack on the idea of publicly delivered public services. You can view the guide here.
Hundreds of staff working for Enable Scotland are to be consulted on a new pay offer which puts an additional ...
This report reveals a Care Management system that is on its knees, with decisions about care being driven by budgets, ...
On 24 June the Scottish Government belatedly published its draft amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) bill. This is ...
Hundreds of staff working for Enable, one of Scotland’s largest charitable social care providers, are to be asked if they're ...
The Improvement Service have published their twelfth annual "Local Government Benchmarking Framework Report" The report is compiled for CoSLA & ...
This briefing explains the proposals - at least the ones the Scottish Government have published - in Stage 2 of ...
This briefing gives an update on plans for a National Social Work Agency now that the Scottish Government has published ...
This briefing gives an overview of the IJB reforms set out in the government’s Stage 2 amendments to the NCS ...
UNISON social care workers, with unite and GMB, demonstrated outside the Scottish Parliament on Thursday calling for answers to the ...
The General Principles of the National Care Service Bill were approved by Parliament on 29 February. This briefing summarises where ...