In a normal year, Higher National Certificate (HNC) candidates are required to undertake a minimum of 60 days on placement. When the COVID-19 restrictions were put in place, most candidates would already have undertaken a range of placements prior to the start of the graded unit.

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.

The SSSC is the Sector Skills Council and regulator for social services in Scotland. We recognise the challenges the COVID-19 pandemic presents to services and the impact on gaining benchmark qualifications.

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.  

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created uncertainty for social work students so we’ve agreed contingency plans with the Heads of Social Work Programmes in Scotland to help mitigate the impact on them.

Another 98 Dementia Champions and 45 Dementia Specialist Improvement Leads (DSIL) will graduate today from specialist dementia training programmes aimed at improving the care and support for people living with dementia in Scottish hospitals, care homes and community settings.