Carers Legislation - Consultation on Proposals

Annex H

How to Respond

Carers Branch welcomes responses to this consultation paper by 16 April 2014. Please send your response with the completed Respondent Information Form to: CarersandYoungCarersPolicy@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Or to:

Carers Branch(Consultation)
Adult Care and Support Division
Directorate for Chief Nursing Officer, Patients, Public and Health Professions
Director-General Health and Social Care
The Scottish Government
2ER, St Andrew's House
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

We would be grateful if you would use the consultation questionnaire provided in the consultation document or clearly indicate in your response which questions or parts of the consultation paper you are responding to as this will aid our analysis of the responses received.

This consultation, and all other Scottish Government consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Government website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations.

The Scottish Government now has an email alert system for consultations SEconsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx. This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements, but in no way replaces, SG distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all SG consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We would encourage you to register.

Handling your response

We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form which forms part of the separate consultation questionnaire as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential and treat accordingly. All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore has to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

Next steps in the process

If you tell us we can make your response public, we will put it in the Scottish

Government Library and on the Scottish Government consultation web pages. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any wording that might be harmful to others before putting them in the library or on the website. If you would like to see the responses please contact the Scottish Government Library on 0131 244 4565. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

What happens next?

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us reach a decision on the proposed carers' legislation. We will issue a report on this consultation process in the Summer of 2014, which will be published on the Scottish Government's website at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/Recent

Comments and complaints

If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:

Name: Kevin Fallon
Address: Carers Branch
Adult Care and Support Division
The Scottish Government
2ER, St Andrew's House
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
Email: kevin.fallon@scotland.gsi.gov.uk