The Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise Siobhan Brown has announced the appointment of Andrew Fleming as a Member of the Scottish Social Services Council. The appointment will be for 3 years and will run from 3 August 2026 to 2 August 2029.

The Adult Social Care Displaced Worker Scheme offers targeted funding to adult social care employers based in Scotland to recruit displaced adult social care workers who are already in the UK.

#NoWrongPath is a national campaign encouraging people across Scotland to share their career journeys, to reassure young people that there is lots of different paths and options available when leaving school.  

From 3–7 August 2026, our staff will be sharing their own career journeys from leaving school to where they are now. 

Over the past quarter of a century, registration and regulation has helped build a social work, social care and children and young people workforce that is trusted, skilled, confident and valued.

We’ve launched a new Palliative care and care around dying MyLearning badge to support Scotland's social service workforce.

Digital skills are becoming part of everyday work in social services. DigiSkills is a new free online learning resource designed to help you feel more confident using digital tools, data and technology in your role. 

Applications to the 2026-27 Voluntary Sector Development Fund (VSDF) are now open. The fund supports voluntary sector organisations providing social services that are a registered charity and are registered with the Care Inspectorate.

Try our new cyber resilience learning resources for Scotland’s social care workers and managers. We’ve published two resources, one for anyone working in social care and one for social care managers.

We’re looking to recruit up to 12 legally qualified chairs for our Fitness to Practise Panel hearings. Chairs must be available to sit for 15 to 30 days each year.

The Scottish Government is consulting on proposed changes to SSSC registration requirements to add three new groups to the SSSC’s Register. The three groups are people working in adult day care services, offender accommodation services and social work assistants.

The SSSC and Skills Development Scotland (SDS) are asking people across the social care and children and young people sector to share their views on revised apprenticeship frameworks.

We’ve launched two updated MyLearning badges to help care home staff create more meaningful activities in care homes across Scotland.