division_name: Social Care
motion: <p class="indent" pid="d242.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes that almost ten years of Government cuts to council budgets have resulted in a social care funding crisis which means 1.5 million older people have unmet social care needs; further notes the increasing funding gap for adult social care; believes proposals from the Government for access to additional funding for both adult and children&#8217;s social care will do nothing to ease the crisis or address the funding gap; and calls on the Government to bring forward as a matter of urgency plans to reform social care including plans for free personal care.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d245.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The adult social care Green Paper, which will be published later this year&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2020-10-17">17 October</phrase> 2018; Vol. 647, c. 736.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d246.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;notes that the Government is committed to fixing the crisis in social care; and supports the Government&#8217;s commitment to find a long term solution for the growing need for care and commitment to an ambitious three point plan, including extra funding every year, seeking a cross party consensus and ensuring the prerequisite of any solution is a guarantee that no one needing care has to sell their home to pay for it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d248.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;life expectancy actually fell in the most deprived communities outside London for women and in some regions for men.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d251.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;nobody needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay for it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d252.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;nobody needing care should be forced to sell their home to pay for it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d252.2/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the overall reduction in EU immigration would be especially challenging for those sectors most reliant on lower-paid, non UK workers, including occupations such as&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d252.2/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;social care&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d253.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this would result in new barriers to trade and exports, a fall in national income compared to EU membership and damage to social care and the NHS.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d254.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;less than 10% of those in caring personal service occupations in Scotland earn above &#163;25,000&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d254.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the proposed new migration system will soon bar people from coming to the UK to work in most frontline social care jobs, even if these are defined as a shortage occupation&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d254.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This immigration proposal, far from enhancing the economic wellbeing of our country, will put a lot of the care sector, a lot of hospitality and other sectors in Scotland at considerable risk.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d254.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;What is low-skilled about a worker being with somebody at the end of their life, or somebody giving comfort to an individual with dementia?&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d264.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I have no relations, no family, the carers and staff are my family&#8230;I want to live the rest of my days here it has all come crashing down around me&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d264.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;People will not get more than 10 minutes three times a day&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d264.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this doesn&#8217;t stop people roaming the streets and the police having to bring them back.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d264.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;My mum lived independently till she was 96 years of age. We all rallied round to look after her, but she was only safe once she was here at the Spinney.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d279.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The care workforce needs a career structure which better reflects the skills required to be a good care worker and the social importance of the sector.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d279.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a realistic and comprehensive workforce strategy is needed to combat the chronic recruitment and retention crisis that that is affecting the social care sector.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d280.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am announcing now, on the steps of Downing Street, that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all, and with a clear plan we have prepared to give every older person the dignity and security they deserve.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d280.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Does the Green Paper actually exist?&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d280.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Not as far as I&#8217;m aware.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d280.0/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Dad has now passed away but his needs, with two broken hips and pneumonia, were not met in the slightest by either the NHS or social services. I feel if care had been better he would still be alive. Mum is in a care home and I have had to give up my job to care for them and I have received very little acknowledgement of this.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="d280.0/16" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If government fails to support this uplift then services may close, jobs will be lost and support to people in need will be reduced at a time when more people need social care. The social care system has endured chronic underfunding for many years and we call upon the government to fund not only the increases in the Living Wage, but the sector&#8217;s long term sustainability.&#8221;</p>