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Delivering social care in a changing climate

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CXC Delivering social care in a changing climate June 2020.pdf (1.374Mb)
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01/2021
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Young, Shelagh
Bergseng, Anne Marte
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Weather disruption is a ‘system stressor’ that is projected to increase in the coming decades as the global climate changes. The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment has identified climate change as one of the greatest risks to public health in the UK, and one which will impact vulnerable people disproportionally. This project looks at how providers of social care support at home in Scotland respond to extreme weather events. Based on experience from three case studies of extreme weather, it considers how the sector is planning for, dealing with and learning from such events. The study only looks at support provided in people’s homes. It does not address care provided in other settings such as residential care homes. The report is a first step in making an assessment of the social care support sector’s resilience to climate change and helping to improve this. The research is based on interviews with social care providers and with those working in business continuity, emergency planning and community resilience in six geographical focus areas. It also involved desk research, drawing on strategies and plans relevant to the provision of social care support at home which are in the public domain. The study was commissioned and carried out prior to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, and also at a time when the Scottish Government was working with partners to develop a programme to support reform of adult social care support.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1842/37488

http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/772

https://www.climatexchange.org.uk/media/4545/cxc-delivering-social-care-in-a-changing-climate-june-2020.pdf
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