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...
Influencing Change
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...
Does the way we access social care in Scotland work?
Becs Barker Operations Manager for Community Contacts, Involvement, Quality and Innovation. asks: Does the way we access social care in Scotland work?
Statement on the CCPS joint letter sent to the First Minister
Lucy Wren, our Chief Executive, has signed a joint-letter to the First Minister calling on him to increase pay for social care staff. Andrew Thomson, Deputy Chief Executive,...
Is social care in crisis?
Andrew Thomson, Deputy Chief Executive, answers the question: Is social care in crisis? Any news report will shout loudly in the affirmative: social care is in crisis! The...
Do we value Social Care?
Paul Marshall, Senior Operations Manager in the West of Scotland, explores whether we value social care in Scotland. "Whichever one of the first three words we emphasise as we...
Carr Gomm’s Involvement Group continues to influence the National Care Service
Our National Involvement Group met with Rachel McGruer, Deputy Director of Adult Social Care; Local Improvement and Transformation, to share what they think the National Care...
