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Rising Residential Social Care Costs

  • Submitted by: Pauline McNeill, Glasgow, Scottish Labour.
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
  • Motion reference: S6M-03570

That the Parliament notes with concern the findings of the report of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland that the current adult social care system causes unnecessary suffering and hardship; understands that, according to the report, access to social care is inconsistent across the country and too often support is only available when people are in crisis; further understands that the overall costs for UK care homes are expected to increase by 30% in 2022 and that the burden of cost increases is likely to fall upon self-funding care home residents; notes reports that care home fees have been rising above the rate of inflation for several years, and believes that rising care home costs could lead to evictions that would be highly detrimental to the health of care home residents; welcomes the report’s recommendations to provide free nursing care for self-funded care home residents; notes with concern reports that social care needs in prison populations are often overlooked and there is no recognition of the right to reasonable adjustment within prison; agrees with the report’s recommendations that the focus of adult social care should be crisis-prevention rather than crisis-relief, and that consistency in relation to access, eligibility and outcomes should be prioritised, and calls upon the Scottish Government to invest in Scotland’s adult social care system in order to provide holistic, person-centred care free at the point of use, which empowers all users and their carers.


Supported by: Paul Sweeney