This document is a joint response to the call for evidence from the Scottish Parliament Health and Sport Committee call for evidence on the bill for a National Care Service

This response has been jointly prepared and submitted by the following National Carer Organisations, collectively referred to within this document as the NCOs: Carers Scotland; Carers Trust Scotland; Coalition of Carers in Scotland; MECOPP (Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project); Shared Care Scotland; and Scottish Young Carers Services Alliance. It sets out our jointly agreed position and may be supplemented by individual responses submitted by the above organisations.