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A care home resident holding hands with her daughter
THE Scottish TUC condemned the SNP government’s plans for a new national care service today, passing a string of motions damning privatised social care.
Congress agreed to fight for social work to be “a public service delivered by the public sector and accountable to democratically elected members of the community.”
Moving a motion attacking “the government’s decision to privatise the design of the NCS by contracting Price Waterhouse Cooper,” Unison delegate Lilian Macer savaged private care providers who with one hand had taken public support and Covid payments “and with the other siphoned it off to the Cayman islands.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint