National Care Service: co-design of the draft NCS charter of rights and responsibilities
The Charter of Rights and Responsibilities will set out people’s existing rights and responsibilities when accessing support through the National Care Service. It will also include information about how people can make a complaint, if their rights are not met by the National Care Service.
Footnotes
1 The UNCRPD is an international human rights treaty which is not currently in domestic law so the Charter cannot include the explicit right to independent living at this time. The draft Charter does however include domestic legal rights which may reflect the tenets of Article 19.
2 The Charter cannot create new rights but the draft does summarise existing legal rights, including the rights of some people for independent advocacy to be made available in specific situations.
Contact
Email: ncscommunications@gov.scot
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