From June we’ll introduce a three-year timescale for new registrants in the social care workforce to gain their qualification for registration.

We’ve published a new guide for social care providers on employing 16 and 17-year-olds to provide practical support and help when recruiting young people.

We recently held online events to support employers to understand how people should meet the new continuous professional learning (CPL) and return to practice (RTP) registration requirements which came into effect in June 2024. 

A new report shows the economic and social value of the adult social care sector in Scotland was £5.2 billion in 2022/23. It also estimates that every £1 spent in the sector brought £1.98 in socioeconomic benefits.

We’re consulting on a proposal to add new groups of workers from the social service workforce to the SSSC Register and want to hear your views on the proposal. 

We’re asking workers in all kinds of social work, social care and children and young people roles to share their views in the first Have Your Say Workforce Wellbeing Survey.

The Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise, Natalie Don-Innes MSP visited the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) office in Dundee today to learn more about their work.

Applications for cohort 26 of the Digital Health and Care Leadership Programme (DLP) are open to all health and social care settings in Scotland including health, social care, social work, housing, charities and the third sector.

Thank you for responding to our consultation on the proposal to increase SSSC registration fees. The consultation closed on Monday 23 December 2024.

Today, the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) publishes its 2023-2024 Annual Report. 

Fitness to Practise Panels play a key role in the fair, independent and transparent regulation of the social work, social care and children and young people workforce. They make decisions on fitness to practise cases in the name of the SSSC but are independent. 

Social service workers, like anybody else, have the right to a safe place of work, free from harassment and from other harmful acts. Unfortunately, as with any other sector, there are cases of inappropriate behaviour in social service workplaces.