National Care Service
READY TO FAIL: THE ‘CO-DESIGN’ PROCESS FOR CREATING A NATIONAL CARE SERVICE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Author / Creator: Nick Kempe
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2023
The co-design process for the National Care Service has not worked.
Social Care Reform in Scotland: context, costs and questions
Author / Creator: Emma Congreve
Date published:
A gap between legislative intent and delivery has been experienced historically in social care. The National Care Service (NCS) is the latest attempt to change this.
National Care Service - social work: contextual paper
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
The current status of social work in Scotland. [2022]
The National Care Service is a Lie
Author / Creator: Janice McAlpine (pseud.)
Media type: consultation response
Date published:
the plans will only bolster the profit motive that already pollutes much of social care provision, remove vital local accountability, will leave workers short-changed and, most importantly, are vagueon how it will improve anything for people who require support to live their lives to the full.
Caring about Children
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Podcast
Date published:
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.
Care In Your Community
Author / Creator: Colin Turbett
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Putting Community Hubs at the heart of a National Care Service.
Empty Promise?
Author / Creator: Marion Macleod
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
The Promise for family support and child care away from home needs a strategic standpoint integrating the relevant services.
Common Weal's Manifesto for a National Care Service
Author / Creator: Common Weal Care Reform Group
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
This Manifesto lays out the principles of care that should be met by any proposed blueprint for Care reform and will be followed up in due course with a comprehensive blueprint for an NCS that would meet these principles and align with the values of Common Weal.
Better than This
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2021
We must emerge from the Covid pandemic in a way that
Fixes the problems raised by the crisis.
Fixes the problems evident before the crisis and makes us resilient.
Implements a green new deal.
Establishes a new democracy.
Begins a national care service.
Starts land reform.
Creates a housing revolution.
Controls our own energy.
Provides better banking
Focus on independence.