Sample Letter to Protest the Care Tax
If you like the video that Kiana has produced, then we would ask you to write to your MSP to tell them about the Care Tax. You can download a word document here that will serve as a starting point. Don't forget to put your own address and the name of your MSP in as well.
Thanks for your help
Some points to help you think about the consultation
Responding to the Care Charges Consultation
When responding to a consultation, using your own words and experiences helps to make your contribution stand out. We have chosen not to produce a single standard response in order to encourage more individual replies.
But we would like to make it as easy as possible for you to reply to the consultation and have put together some bullet points for you to consider before answering each of the questions. Feel free to base your responses around these points or as a spark to write your own comments based on your personal experiences and views.
Bullets Points for each Consultation Question
1. Do you support the principle that non-residential social care services should be available free at the point of delivery to those who have been assessed by a relevant professional as requiring them (as is the case within health care)?
Yes
· Human rights should not be affected by which organisation, NHS or local authority social care, gives you help or support.
· Having to pay to exercise basic rights like to get out of bed discriminates against disabled people.
· Care charging is an unnecessary barrier for proper Health and Social Care Integration
· Any distinction between “health” and “social” care is false. Poor social care will lead to poor health. Poor health care will make good social care very hard. The distinction is based on outmoded values and approaches.
· Some people worry that more people will ask for social care if it is free but already not everyone who asks for help gets it. Local authorities and health services already have elaborate systems established to ensure that only people who need help get it. These include assessment systems and eligibility criteria which are likely to stop lots more people getting social care, even if it is free.
· Care charging financially disadvantages disabled people and can push them into poverty
Read more: Some points to help you think about the consultation
More Information To Keep You Up To Date
Read the SACT February Petition Response
Scottish Government Response for February
Read the SACT December Petition Response
Read the Annex to the SACT December Petition Response
Easy Read Guide to the Consultation
Easy Read Guide to why we want to end care charges
Guide to Answering the Questions In the Consultation
Our Letter to the Petitions Committee - May 2015
Our Letter to the Petitions Committee - March 2015
Our Letter to the Petitions Committee - January 2015
Equality and Humans Right Committee response to Petitions Committee
What would it cost to get rid of the Care Tax
What does it cost to collect the Care Tax
Understanding Disability Related Expenditure
Local Authority Charging Policies
Aberdeen City
Aberdeenshire
Angus
Argyll & Bute
Clackmannanshire
Dumfries & Galloway
Dundee City
East Ayrshire
East Dunbartonshire
East Lothian
East Renfrewshire
Edinburgh, City of
Eilean Siar
Falkirk
Fife
Glasgow City
Highland
Inverclyde
Midlothian
Moray
North Ayrshire
North Lanarkshire
Orkney Islands
Perth & Kinross
Renfrewshire
Scottish Borders
Shetland Islands
South Ayrshire
South Lanarkshire
Stirling
West Dunbartonshire
West Lothian
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