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28 Apr 2021
We have developed a new app to help social service workers identify potential skin breakdown on people they support in partnership with Glasgow School of Art’s School of Simulation and Visualisation.
01 Mar 2021
We are overwhelmed by the positive response for our MyLearning app. Since launching it last November, over 5,000 people have used the app, nearly 40,000 learning logs have been recorded and 800 people have shared their learning journal with someone else.
26 Feb 2021
The University of Glasgow is offering new fully funded 10-week courses to social service workers in Scotland.
26 Feb 2021
We’ve published a new guide which offers information and advice to support Dementia Ambassadors in their role.
06 Jan 2021
We are working with NHS Education for Scotland (NES) to offer social service workers the chance to undertake the Scottish Improvement Foundation Skills programme starting this spring.
18 Nov 2020
We’ve developed a new app, MyLearning, to help you record and reflect on the learning you do every day. It’s free and you can use it to record your continuous professional learning (CPL).
11 Nov 2020
We’ve updated the supplementary guidance for SVQ assessment centres dealing with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic when assessing candidates. This replaces the previous guidance issued in May 2020.
03 Nov 2020
SSSC Open Badges have been very popular over the last few months with lots of social service workers visiting the website for the first time. We’ve produced guidance for managers to help workers get the most from their learning activity.
02 Nov 2020
A new insight report published by Health Improvement Scotland (HIS) in partnership with the SSSC and Care Inspectorate outlines key elements of what has enabled good practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.
26 Aug 2020
We’ve published two new guides for carer support staff; It’s all about you and Death, dying and bereavement.
06 Jul 2020
A guide for social service workers
01 Jul 2020
Our new guide, Working safely during COVID-19, offers social service workers information and advice about changes to the way we work as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.