SOCIAL CARE: Make Scotland a Caring Society; Helping Others - Particularly Those Who Are Vulnerable or in a Period of Crisis in Their Lives - Can Bring More Than Just Financial Rewards
The chapter’s focus is social careFootnote1in England where responsibility for the organisation and funding of care has shifted from the state to the individual. It draws on a qualitative research project about the experiences of older people who are paying for their social care.Footnote2We, as...
“I lasted 5 days working at an Amazon warehouse in Gourock, Scotland. It's appalling. Every toilet break is monitored, you're constantly on your feet, and supervisors are constantly on your back”. “Everything is true, yes they monitor your bathroom breaks, yes you only get two 8 min...
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Both Scotland and Singapore have worked to clear such hurdles through multichannel approaches. In Scotland, the disability benefits system was inaccessible and off-putting, often requiring citizens to physically prove the extent of their disabilities during assessment. After an end-to-end process ...
Improving holistic family support for children, young people and their families in Scotland The Scottish Government commissioned IFF Research to conduct an evaluation of the Whole Family Wellbeing Funding (WFWF) to understand what the first year of the funding is being used for and how family su...
“But our profession is in a bit of crisis - there are social workers burning out fairly quickly. Caseloads are becoming more complex, and more agency staff are being used.” These problems were made clear in a report assessing the state of social care in England by the DfE in 2022, whi...
(Project Staff 5). Rather than working in partnership with government, it was felt that SEOs were compensating for inadequacies in essential public services, equipped with limited funding:“We’re [SEOs] scooping up the bits that should be covered by public services […] Scotland has become ...
The neoliberalisation of health and social care in the UK has been conceptualised as a crisis, related to the problematic ‘commodification of care framed ideologically by consumer choice and individual responsibility’ (Ward et al., 2020, n.p). In Scotland specifically, the use of ‘assets-...
crisis, how quality health, education and housing can be accessible for all. But a democratic, progressive tourism, travel and leisure are just as important in an automated economy where we should not have to work as many hours in order to make a decent living. In a way, we have to ...