Page 3 - Unfair To Care Scottish Supplement 2023

SECTOR SUPPORT
RACHEL CACKETT, CEO, THE COALITION OF CARE AND SUPPORT PROVIDERS IN SCOTLAND (CCPS)
“CCPS welcomes and supports the Unfair To Care research by our member organisation, Community Integrated Care. We’re pleased to have been able to build on this important work, providing additional Scotland-specific pay data, gathered from across our 93 members.
Unfair To Care is a vital and timely campaign, as our members from across the care sector demand the urgent attention of the Scottish Government to address the current crisis we are experiencing. The issues we face - Fair Work, recruitment and retention and, indeed, the fundamental sustainability of the whole sector – need urgent action.
We share a commitment to working with the Government to deliver the positive changes needed for our workforce and the people they care for. But, as this campaign states, right now, too
many decisions being taken are Unfair to Care.”
DR DONALD MACASKILL,
CEO, SCOTTISH CARE
“The lifeblood of every care organisation is the people who work for it. It is they who are the hands of care; it is they who deliver compassion, treat people with dignity, make sure that people are heard and supported as they wanted to. They are our most precious resource and yet every day hundreds are leaving social care to work elsewhere.
The reason is not that they have fallen out of love with their jobs or stopped caring. They are leaving because they need to find a job that pays them better, that gives them a career and that values them.
I am happy to support Community Integrated Care’s Unfair To Care campaign, so that we can help people understand the true level of professionalism and skill within social care and that as
a whole society, we can close the pay gap between those who work in our care sector and those who work in our NHS. They are two sides of the care coin – it is time our support to both was equal and fair.”