― There is a well-understood set of criteria which are viewed as being key to the health, safety and welfare of care workers.
― During the Covid crisis there is well-documented evidence of how poorly these criteria were properly ensured for care staff in Scotland.
― There is an internationally defined and accepted hierarchy of actions to ensuring that staff health, safety and welfare is properly protected and this must underpin our approaches in future.
― As well as these there are fundamental issues which must be addressed: pay, job security, training, work load and patterns, and the ability for staff to have a degree of control over their work and of influence on how care is provided.
― These can only be properly addressed by ensuring that staff have the ability to have their voice heard through collective bargaining and unionisation.