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COSLA welcomes free personal care action |
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
The chief of Scotland’s local authority grouping Pat Watters has welcomed Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing Nicola Sturgeon’s comments on free personal care.
Watters, who is president of the Convention of Scottish Local
Authorities (COSLA), said that Sturgeon’s comments about the need for a
review of some elements of the policy vindicated COSLAs stance.
“Scotland's councils are fully committed to Free Personal Care and see
it as a defining policy of devolution. The tone and the language used
by Nicola Sturgeon this afternoon is most welcome from a local
government perspective with all of the issues we have been pressing for
recognised and addressed in her statement.
“We welcome the recognition by the Cabinet Secretary that some of the
outstanding legislative issues need to be dealt with before local
authorities can implement this policy in the most effective way. The
implementation issues all flow once you have secured fit for purpose
legislation - that is a fundamental factor in the policy continuing to
be a success. The vast majority of our elderly population who need
free personal care get it and are happy with the care they receive and
we in local government are fully committed to working with the Scottish
government to see this continues and seek where possible even further
improvements to the policy. Local government is fully committed to
better outcomes for older people,” he said.
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