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. 

Our new resource, Safe use of medication during the COVID-19 pandemic is a quick guide for new social service workers and people who are supporting the learning of others working in care homes and in people’s homes.

A number of resources are now available to support care homes identify factors that may impact on the health, safety and wellbeing of residents as a result of COVID-19.

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has developed a new leadership resource to help people in social services reflect on and develop their leadership capability and that of others, particularly during the COVID-19 period. 

We’ve produced a new online adult support and protection quick guide to support social service staff who have been rapidly inducted or redeployed to support frontline services.

Learn about leadership, how you can recognise your own leadership capability and develop it with our new resource, 23 Things Leadership. 

Free coaching is now available to support all health and social service workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

We’re working with the Scottish Government’s Cyber Resilience Unit to make people in the sector aware of an increase in coronavirus related scams.  

We know that social service workers are experiencing an incredibly difficult time during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

We’ve produced a new online resource to support social workers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be particularly useful for social workers returning to frontline services, those joining the temporary social worker register and others redeployed to a different role than usual.

With the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic across the country, it will be necessary for health and social care staff to be deployed to work in frontline care services they may be unfamiliar with. Temporary workers and volunteers are also being recruited to support services.

The Open University’s Early Childhood team and the Scottish Government have developed a free online course, Identifying and supporting additional support needs in early learning and childcare, for early learning and childcare (ELC) practitioners.