Professor John Robertson OBA
From People requiring a social care assessment and care at home services, published yesterday:
The number of people estimated to be waiting on a social care assessment for a package of care was 7,806 on 3 November 2025. This is an increase of 30% from the estimated number of people waiting this time last year (4 November 2024).
All things being equal, you might expect the figure for England would be around 10 times as much or 78 000. It was 195 788:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Sadly, I suspect a significant factor in these rises is the right wing anti immigrant and asylum seeker rhetoric and actions propagated by the media and amplified by the increasingly baleful language of the Labour Government.
The care sector is heavily dependent on staff from overseas and this baleful language is deterring potential staff.
Of course, ‘Scottish’ Labour is going to sort this by having more Scots take up work in care. There is, in this, a whiff of the ‘welfare scroungers’ nastiness from Labour about ‘getting people back to work’, by providing things like anti obesity drug injections. All the right wing tropes are being deployed. Remember the incompetent Johan Lamont’s rant about ‘the something for nothing society’?
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