Care Futures 9 – It’s as bad as you think.

Date posted: 9 February 2022

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No9 of UNISON Scotland’s Care Futures summarises a new paper from Audit Scotland which gathers together a wealth of information about social care. The picture painted is not a cheery one. What the paper does do though is do is back up everything UNISON Scotland has been saying about care sector in recent years.

 

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