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• Scottish Government scraps national care service restructure

  26-01-2025 23:33
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The Scottish Government has ditched plans to restructure adult social care in the country into a ‘national care service’ (NCS).
  Social care minister Maree Todd said that she was scrapping the flagship Scottish National Party (SNP) policy because of a lack of support within the Scottish Parliament, in a ministerial statement issued this week.
  She said that ministers remained commi
  
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• How disabled adults are sidelined by social care | Letters

  26-01-2025 18:18
  
  Charging people on benefits for care in their homes causes real financial hardship, writes Claire Bolderson, while Jill Souter worries for the future of the charity that cares for her daughter. Plus, letters from Ray Downing and John BeerJohn Harris is right about the lack of attention given to working-age adults with disabilities in discussions about the reform of social care (Shut away and ignored: thousands of disabled adults are at the frontier of the human rights struggle, 19 January). Howe
  
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