A new National Wellbeing Hub to support the mental and physical health and wellbeing of the health and social care workforce including unpaid carers, volunteers and their families is now available.

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. 

SSSC Chief Executive, Lorraine Gray, thanks the social service workforce for their vital work 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.  

The Scottish Government has set up a team to respond to offers of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A joint statement from the Care Inspectorate and the SSSC on ethical and professional decision making in the COVID-19 pandemic, and risk assessment guidance on repurposing of medicines within care home services.

Ramadan is a month-long Muslim observance which is starting on the evening of Thursday 23 April and ends at sunset Saturday 23 May.

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

Plans for World Social Work Day on 17 March 2020 were overtaken by the growing COVID-19 pandemic. But as social workers in Scotland respond to the crisis, return to frontline roles and join our temporary social work register we thought it was a good time to share our article to highlight the vital role they play in supporting some of society’s most vulnerable citizens.

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.

We’ve produced a new resource to support staff health and wellbeing during the challenging time of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.