Briefing
SCO
Draft National Eligibility Framework for Carers
03 July 2015
The National Carer Organisations are seeking an amendment to The Carers (Scotland) Bill to have a duty on local authorities to support carers based on national eligibility critieria, rather then local eligibility critieria. Carers have been very clear in their view that a national framework for eligibility is the only way to avoid the continuing postcode lottery and the confusion of having 32 different systems operating through