Cole-Hamilton comments on scrapping of doomed social care centralisation 

Speaking in the Scottish Parliament as the SNP Government announced that they are scrapping their planned centralisation of social care services, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“Care in our country is broken, but SNP ministers have spent four years and £30 million on the wrong solutions. That’s enough to pay the salaries of 1,200 care workers for an entire year. What a waste.

“Every year wasted on this is a year the minister could have been getting on with fixing our broken care system.

“So, will she now apologise to everyone stuck in hospital because community care is not available to receive them home? To the care workers who cannot offer the care and support they signed up for and want to offer because there simply isn’t enough time? And to the legions of unpaid family carers who don’t have the wraparound support they need?”