{"id":224909,"date":"2025-01-27T01:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T01:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/an-embarrassing-but-predictable-end-to-scotlands-national-care-service\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T01:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T01:41:11","slug":"an-embarrassing-but-predictable-end-to-scotlands-national-care-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/27\/an-embarrassing-but-predictable-end-to-scotlands-national-care-service\/","title":{"rendered":"An embarrassing but predictable end to Scotland’s National Care Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Scottish government is scrapping its plans to create a National Care Service.<\/p>\n

It is an embarrassing but perhaps predictable end to years of ambitious talk about finally coming up with a solution to the social care crisis.<\/p>\n

In a statement at Holyrood, the government tore up parts of the bill that would require major structural changes to the Scottish social care system.<\/p>\n

The downfall of the plan wasn’t money or lack of ambition necessarily.<\/p>\n

And there was cross-party agreement on what needed to be done. The problem was a frustrating lack of consensus on how to get there.<\/p>\n

It is also the end of the process that has been costly too.<\/p>\n

More than \u00a330m has already been spent on planning the policy cover the last three years.<\/p>\n

It was one of the boldest public service reforms of the SNP’s 17 years in power, with the scheme forming a key policy of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s administration.<\/p>\n

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In 2021, Ms Sturgeon branded the National Care Service the “most ambitious reform since devolution”.<\/p>\n

Now, the plan is in tatters, and it tells us a lot about how difficult social care reform is and what might lie in store for the Westminster government.<\/p>\n

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has unveiled plans to reform the social care system with his own version of a National Care Service, designed to bring it closer to the National Health Service.<\/p>\n

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Mr Streeting announced the formation of an independent commission, chaired by Baroness Louise Casey, to develop comprehensive proposals for organising and funding social care. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But the past is littered with broken promises when it comes to social care reform.<\/p>\n

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Successive governments from Tony Blair right through to Boris Johnson have failed to grasp the nettle and implement plans.<\/p>\n

It is in part due to the billions of pounds that would be needed to pay for it – likely raised through taxes – but it has also failed because political parties haven’t been able to work together to make reform a reality.<\/p>\n

The failure of the Scottish plan does not bode well for future social care reforms across the rest of the UK.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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