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Securing fairness and justice for Scotland’s social carers
Profit-driven private contractors must play absolutely no role in the new national care service, writes Unite Scotland regional secretary PAT RAFFERTY
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
With the centenary of the UN Slavery Convention upon us, ROGER McKENZIE argues much needs to be done to rid us of all its contemporary manifestations
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
IT IS widely recognised that there is a crisis in our care sector that requires a complete overhaul of how care is delivered in Scotland. The task is so huge that for decades it has been kicked into the long grass.
Proposals for a national care service have finally been published, with the Scottish government stating that it wants it to be fully operational by 2026.
But exactly what type, form and shape of service this actually means in practice is one of the biggest wrangles in Scottish domestic politics.
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