In early 2025 we surveyed Trade Union members who work within the creative industries with a view of ensuring that workers voices are front and centre of any discussion around Fair Work. This report gives voice to their experience – and highlights some shocking working practices.
June 2025
Despite extensive international and Scottish literature linking financialised and privatised care with poor outcomes and excess profit extraction, the Scottish Government’s recently withdrawn National Care Service Bill did not propose any change to who provides care. Neither has the Scottish Government brought forward reforms to address these issues since it withdrew the NCS Bill. Using data from the Care Inspectorate, this report analyses complaints into older people’s care homes in the private, voluntary and public sector over the last three years.
March 2025
This report uses Care Inspectorate data to examine differences in staffing resources across private, voluntary and public sector care homes for older people. It finds that staffing resources in older people’s care homes are 20% lower in the private sector compared to the not-for-profit (public and voluntary) sector.
March 2025
In 2024 there were an estimated 64,000 residential care workers in Scotland. For these workers and others in social care, the Scottish Government have sought to increase pay in line with the real living wage since 2016. Using data from the Office for National Statistics Annual Survey of Hours and Earning, this report analyses the impact of this policy on residential care employees in Scotland in the last five years.
March 2025
