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National Care Service plan for Scotland backed by union
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dailyrecord.co.uknational care service to repair Scotland’s “broken” system after the coronavirus crisis. Unison said adult social care has been the “forgotten front line” in the response to the pandemic, with deaths in care homes rising even as they declined in hospitals.
In a report titled Care After Covid: A Vision For Social Care In Scotland, the union said the social care sector was “woefully under-prepared” for the pandemic.
It said an inadequate testing programme and employer pressure on care workers to attend work against public health advice meant they were exposed to “significantly higher” risk of contracting Covid-19.Unison said there needs to be substantial extra investment in social care as a matter of urgency, and that the social care sector.
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