Draft Carers (Waiving of Charges for Support) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 A public consultation on draft regulations to accompany the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013

Reasons not to charge carers

6. Carers are providers of services who save the health and social care system in Scotland over an estimated £10 billion each year.^[1] Moreover, much of the support to carers should be preventative in nature. Providing preventative support helps to avoid more significant costs in the longer term, both in support to carers and in the cost of providing services to service users. There will, for example, be reduced hospital admissions and people will be living in their own homes and communities.^[2]