Carr Gomm responded to the Proposed Disability Commissioner (Scotland) Bill in May 2024. Carr Gomm supports the general principle of establishing a Disability Commissioner...
Influencing Change
Becs Barker leads SDSS conference
Becs reflects on the SDSS National Voice conference and why it’s important to her and to Carr Gomm that we influence and be part of change in social care. Community...
International perspectives on Scotland’s National Care Service
How can other countries' social care systems influence Scotland's National Care Service? Scotland is not alone in the world as it seeks to develop a new National Care...
Why I’m getting involved in the National Care Service
Lucy, our Chief Exec, sat down with Charlotte from our National Involvement Group and Becs (Operations Manager) to discuss what the National Care Service could look like and why...
Ending the health and social care relay race
If you’ve not watched our feature on Darren McGarvey’s: The State We’re In, you can still catch it on BBC iPlayer. If you have watched it, you will have noticed how many...
Carr Gomm on the BBC
Carr Gomm features in a new three part, UK-wide BBC documentary – Darren McGarvey: The State We’re In. Carr Gomm welcomed Scottish rapper and social commentator, Darren McGarvey...
Carr Gomm’s Becs Barker gives evidence to the Scottish Parliament on SDS
Becs Barker, Carr Gomm's Operations Manager for Community Contacts, Involvement, Quality and Innovation, gave evidence on behalf of social care providers on whether Self-Directed...
Scottish Minister responds to Carr Gomm’s call for social care wage uplift
Maree Todd MSP (Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport) has responded to Carr Gomm’s letter which calls for the Scottish Government to close the unjust pay gap...
Has Scotland’s Self-Directed Support Act achieved its ambitions?
Carr Gomm, our National Involvement Group and the Community Contacts project have shared with the Scottish Parliament whether Self-Directed Support Legislation (SDS) has realised...
Social Care Wage Uplift – Letter to the First Minister
Lucy Wren, our Chief Executive, has written to the First Minister calling for the Scottish Government's Fair Work agenda to be realised in social care. As our letter explains,...
Will a National Care Service recognise digital inclusion as a human right?
Shannon McNee, our Digital Inclusion Development Manager, asks how a National Care Service can recognise digital inclusion as fundamental to people's human rights. Disabled...
It’s time to change the narrative on ‘bed blocking’
The phrase ‘bed-blocking’ is currently bandied around in the media as people try to make sense of increasingly long A&E waiting times and surgery cancellations. When you stop...