Scottish Care

🎄✨ This Christmas, we at Scottish Care want to express our heartfelt gratitude to all our members, supporters, and partners. Your dedication and collaboration have made a tremendous difference this year, and we’re excited to continue working together in the New Year. Wishing you a joyful and peaceful holiday season filled with warmth and happiness. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Scottish Care! 🎅❤️

🎉 Our Winter Bulletin 2024 is here! Pages 26–29 are a festive treat you won’t want to miss! These pages showcase the heartwarming stories, creative activities, and holiday traditions shared by our wonderful members. From beautifully decorationsto joyful celebrations, this section captures the true spirit of Christmas in the social care community. A huge thank-you to everyone who contributed – your stories bring the season to life! 📖 Read the Winter Bulletin 2024 here:

📢 Calling all @scottishcare members! We’re hosting the final members Surgery of 2024 tomorrow at 11am. 🕚 This is your chance to stay informed with the latest updates, and ask questions before the year wraps up. 👉 Mark your calendars: The next Surgery will take place on 7 January 2025.

🌍 Human Rights Day: A Call to Action Tomorrow is Human Rights Day, an annual reminder of the importance of protecting rights for all. At Scottish Care, we use this occasion to highlight both achievements and systemic challenges in social care. 💡 Examples of progress include: ➡️ Silver Pride Project: Creating inclusive spaces for older LGBT adults living with dementia, championing freedom of expression. ➡️ Ethical Commissioning: Advocating for rights-based social care procurement models to enhance dignity and independence. But challenges remain: 🔴 Failure to bring in ringfenced funding: The 2025/26 Scottish Budget leaves social care services under immense financial strain. 🔴 Human Rights Bill delays: The #BringBackTheBill campaign from No urish Scotland calls on the government to prioritise embedding international human rights into law. 📢 Join Nourish Scotland this Human Rights Day for the #OurRightsOurFuture rally: 🗓️ 10th Dec | 🕙 10AM | 📍 Scottish Parliament 🔗 Read more about our work and this event:https://buff.ly/4f7KZph Together, we can stand for dignity, inclusion, and transformative change! #HumanRightsDay

📢 Scottish Care is proud to support Nourish Scotland's Human Rights Day of Action! Join us as we stand together to protect and promote human rights for everyone in Scotland. This is our chance to take action and help build a brighter, fairer future for all. 🗓️ Tuesday 10th December, 10am-2pm 📍 Meet at St. Giles Cathedral for the march, ending at the Scottish Parliament for the rally Let’s unite for change, raise our voices, and champion the rights of all. Be part of this vital movement! 🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/41phL2f #OurRightsOurFuture #RightNow #BringBackTheBill

Scottish Care’s Initial Response to the Scottish Budget The Scottish Budget’s omission of targeted support for social care is deeply concerning. Rising costs, unaddressed National Insurance increases, and a lack of ring-fenced funding put providers, workers, and vulnerable individuals at risk. While health spending headlines dominate, this Budget fails to sustain the social care sector, which is crucial to NHS success. Though the commitment to the Real Living Wage by 2025 is a positive step, it’s not enough to address the challenges facing the sector. Read our full statement and call for urgent action: https://buff.ly/3OFDUS5 #CareAboutCare #ScottishBudget #CareCrisis

📢 Ahead of tomorrow's #ScottishBudget, we're calling for A Budget That Cares. We urge urgent action to: ✅ Mitigate the NI impact ✅ Address funding shortfalls ✅ Support the workforce ✅ Reform commissioning practices Read more: https://buff.ly/497rkEL #careaboutcare

🏆 Entries Now Open for the 2025 Care at Home & Housing Support Awards! 🌟 We’re thrilled to announce that submissions are open for the 2025 National Care at Home and Housing Support Awards! This is your chance to celebrate the incredible dedication, innovation, and impact of individuals, teams, and organisations in the homecare and housing support sector. With 11 award categories, there’s a place to highlight every type of achievement. 🗓 Nominations Close: 28 February 2025, 5:00 pm Submit your nomination and learn more here: https://buff.ly/3ZonILk 👉 https://buff.ly/3ZonILk #CareAwards25 #CelebrateCare

An overview of the insurance market for social care sector 📣 In this latest blog from our Gold Commercial Partner, Howden Insurance Brokers Limited , using their extensive experience of working with thousands of social care organisations across the UK, they provide an overview of market conditions in 2024 and offer insight into insurance services available for the care sector. Read their latest blog to understand what these market conditions are and what care sector businesses need to consider when looking for their next insurance service: Read here: https://buff.ly/4eTJlb2

📣Check out the event report from the latest Partners for Integration event - 'Influencing Change: Inform, Collaborate, Innovate'. The event highlighted the crucial role of Scottish Care & Partners for Integration for fostering collaboration and innovation across Scotland. 🤝 Read more: https://buff.ly/417WzxC