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The Scottish Government has provided fee uplifts and grant funding that are much greater than what has been offered—it has not yet been accepted—in England and Wales. Combined with our latest offer to the profession, that totals 20.5 per cent since 2019.
The best way to combat shortages is to build new homes but, year after year, the Scottish Government falls short of what is needed to tackle growing homelessness levels—the latest statistics show that house building completions are down by about 6 per cent on the previous year.
Now, the vast majority of home care is personal care. In fact, the latest data that I saw showed that only 3 per cent of home care was non-personal care.
I was extremely pleased to see the latest figures on the backing that the Scottish Government provides for local businesses under the small business bonus scheme.
I will feed back to our next meeting on these visits, in particular in relation to the extent to which centres are geared up to provide one week’s residential outdoor education for children with complex additional support needs.