Social welfare
HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE OF THE SOCIAL CARE WORKFORCE
Author / Creator: Kathy Jenkins
Media type: Policy Paper
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The pandemic has shown how important and how vulnerable our health care workers are. The health and welfare of the workers is important. But so ar their work conditions, pay, job security, work patterns, and involvement in decisions on how care is provided.
Contesting the austerity and “welfare reform” narrative of the UK Government: Forging a social democratic imaginary in Scotland
Author / Creator: Jay Wiggan
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The Scottish government fuses nationalism with social wage and social investment concepts. It conjures up images of a prosperous, community led, egalitarian welfare state as a future reality. It recuperates “welfare” as a collective endeavour. It describes austerity as a poor distribution of resources between groups and within the UK as the “problem”.
Believe in Scotland’s Manifesto for Wellbeing.
Author / Creator: The National
Media type: News Media
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Ask yourself: wouldn’t you like to live in a country with a social/economic/environmental policy framework based on this set of values? Wouldn’t you like to be able to vote to create such a nation?
Caring about Children
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Podcast
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Child and early years care in Scotland is a patchwork. Tthe latest Programme for Government perpetuates that. Things could be greatly improved by a strategic and holistic plan for care sitting within a National Care Service.
What can the Scottish Parliament do with new social security powers?
Author / Creator: Paul Spicker
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: February 2016
Scotland will not be able to experiment and to innovate under the current devolution of social security powers.
Empty Promise?
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Policy Paper
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The Promise for family support and child care away from home needs a strategic standpoint integrating the relevant services.
Child Care or Caring About Children?
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Policy Paper
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Scotland has a system of support for children in their early years which is a patchwork of initiatives, fixes, legacy services and omissions. What we do not have is a single, well thought- through integrated service. This is what Scotland’s children need.
Two thousand deaths later, has infection control in care homes improved?
Author / Creator: Nick Kempe
Media type: Report
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Nick Kempe investigates the Care Inspectorate’s attempts to assess the ongoing response in Scottish care homes to the Covid-19 pandemic.
While some care homes have improved, concerns about the quality of data being gathered and the way in which care homes are being reassessed remain. For example, staff in care homes are still not being properly trained in infection control.