Publication - Consultation paper
Unpaid carers - right to breaks and timescales for support plans: consultation
The right to breaks provisions in the Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 will make changes to the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 to deliver a right to personalised short breaks support for carers who can’t currently access “sufficient breaks” from caring. We now seek views on options for implementation.
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Footnotes
1 “A person has a terminal illness if, having had regard to the relevant guidance, it is the clinical judgement of an appropriate healthcare professional that the person has a progressive disease that can reasonably be expected to cause the individual’s death.”
Contact
Email: Carerspolicy@gov.scot