Cole-Hamilton responds to National Care Service news

Responding to reports that the Scottish Government has further delayed and potentially ditched plans for a centralisation of the social care sector, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“If this is the death knell of this centralising ministerial takeover of social care, I am glad. Scottish Liberal Democrats are the only party to have opposed it from day one.

“For four years, the SNP has wasted £30 million on a bureaucratic power grab that attracted clear opposition from every quarter. That money is the equivalent of the annual salary of 1,200 care workers. It is money that should have been spent on care staff and service users, on fixing community care so that people can leave hospital on time.”