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28 Sep 2020
Over the past three months we’ve shared Inspiring Care Stories during COVID-19 and lockdown from social service workers right across Scotland and today we publish the final phase.
02 Sep 2020
At the end of this month (September 2020) support workers in care at home and housing support who were in their role on or before 2 October 2017 must be registered with us.
02 Sep 2020
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) would like to hear your views about moving educational content from Support Worker Central and the HCSW Toolkit to the Turas Learn website.
01 Sep 2020
Post registration training and learning (PRTL) is changing to continuous professional learning (CPL) this autumn. Here is what you need to know.
27 Aug 2020
A new report, published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today, shows that more people than ever before work in Scotland’s social services. There are some 206,400 people in the workforce, which makes up approximately 7.8% of all Scottish employment or one in 13 jobs.
26 Aug 2020
We’ve published two new guides for carer support staff; It’s all about you and Death, dying and bereavement.
24 Aug 2020
An emotional film of a care home resident singing with his daughter on a video call during lockdown is just one of the new Inspiring Care Stories we published today.
13 Aug 2020
A new report, published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) today, reveals that 94 staff left the mental health officer (MHO) workforce between December 2018 and 2019. The report also shows that although the number of local authorities reporting an MHO shortfall increased to 27, the number of full time MHOs needed to address the shortfall decreased to 49.
03 Aug 2020
This autumn we will replace post registration training and learning (PRTL) with a new continuous professional learning (CPL) requirement.
31 Jul 2020
A new workforce support group created in response to COVID-19 recently surveyed Scotland’s education and early learning and childcare workforce to find out what additional training and wellbeing support is needed.
20 Jul 2020
Today we launch Inspiring Care Stories which tell how the social service workforce has adapted, coped and excelled during the COVID-19 pandemic.
06 Jul 2020
A guide for social service workers