Independent review of adult social care in Scotland - report published

The independent review of adult social care support in Scotland, led by Derek Feeley, has handed their report to the Scottish Government.

Recommendations include:

Setting up a National Care Service, to ensure strategic integration with the National Health Service.
Appointing a minister specifically for Social Care, with legal responsibility and accountability for social care passing from local authorities to ministers.
Making social care free 'at the point of need', like the NHS, with increased funding and a human rights-based approach to care.
The service should not be nationalised and the current use of private, third sector and public care providers should carry on.