The Carers Scotland team were in Edinburgh to coordinate the carers bloc at the Scotland Demands Better march on Saturday.

Carers Scotland are an official supporter of the Scotland Demands Better campaign. We were among the thousands of people who joined the march demanding changes to improve the quality of life for the people of Scotland.

The campaign includes a series of demands, centred around better jobs, better life essentials and better social security for the people of Scotland. 

Scotland Demands Better jobs:

• Contribute to ending in-work poverty in Scotland by taking bold action to drive up pay and conditions; and  

• Give everyone in Scotland affordable access to the education, training and skills they needed and recognise education as a public good.

Scotland Demands Better life essentials:

• Have an affordable, accessible and warm home. 

• Can travel to work, education, health and leisure using affordable, accessible, safe and green public transport wherever possible. 

• Can access the public services we need to support us to live a decent and dignified life free from poverty; and  

• Take fair, bold and fast action on climate that benefits local communities, protects those on low-incomes and ensures that the biggest polluters pay for their damage. 

Scotland Demands Better social security

• Ensure Scotland meets its legally binding child poverty targets. 

• Enable disabled people to live lives of dignity, free from poverty.   

• Place the value of care at the heart of our society and invest in it. 

• Deliver an acceptable standard of living for everyone.

 

"The Scottish Government to widen eligibility for and significantly boost the value of the Carers Support Payment for unpaid carers" is one of the first steps outlined within the social security section. However, many of these demands could be beneficial in improving the livres of carers.

Find out more about the Scotland Demands Better campaign on their website.