Mentions:
1: None In our experience, respite services have not gone back to pre-pandemic levels. - Speech Link
2: None At the moment, there is still anxiety among the young people we see who are accessing respite because - Speech Link
3: None Nonetheless, I would defer to other colleagues in health and social care on that. - Speech Link
4: None of information request on the matter to all health boards, local authorities and health and social care - Speech Link
5: None It appears that the most disadvantaged groups of people going through the apprenticeship system are care-experienced - Speech Link

Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) That will ensure that more people get the right care in the right place at the right time. - Speech Link
2: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) Why was the First Minister’s carers strategy of last year so thin on respite commitments? - Speech Link

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Asked by: Griffin, Mark (Scottish Labour - Central Scotland)

Question

To ask the Scottish Government what measures are being implemented to ensure the financial viability of respite care services, especially in light of reports of rising demand and escalating costs.

Answered by Todd, Maree - Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport

The Scottish Government has overall responsibility for health and social care policy in Scotland and local Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCPs) have the responsibility for commissioning and managing the appropriate services for local needs. The Scottish Government are investing £1.7bn for social care and integration in 2023-24 to support the people who deliver, and rely, on these services.

The National Care Service Programme includes a ‘Market Shaping’ work stream. This project will deliver tools and techniques for securing services through contracts, grants, and alliances that are financially sustainable and that meet the needs of people receiving care and the people delivering care. Market Shaping tools and techniques will be designed with providers of social care, commissioners, procurement experts and other stakeholders. It will consider how to improve the financial sustainability of current services, and how services that are not currently offered by the market can be designed and secured in ways that providers are able to deliver.

Mentions:
1: Baillie, Jackie (Lab - Dumbarton) social care staff.The bill should have been about raising standards and quality of care; removing care - Speech Link
2: Smyth, Colin (Lab - South Scotland) get a care assessment, more and more care homes are closing—one a week, according to Scottish Care—and - Speech Link