Scottish Social Services News - Press Releases

Final countdown to mandatory registration for care at home and housing support workers

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:52:45 Z

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.

Learning and development website for support workers survey

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:45:28 Z

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.

Changes to post registration training and learning

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:18:35 Z

Post registration training and learning (PRTL) is changing to continuous professional learning (CPL) this autumn. Here is what you need to know.

More people than ever work in Scotland’s social services

Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:30:00 Z

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.

Resources for carer support staff during COVID-19

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 11:30:20 Z

We’ve published two new guides for carer support staff; It’s all about you and Death, dying and bereavement.

Sharing more Inspiring Care Stories

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:42:36 Z

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.

2019 Mental Health Officers’ Report published

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:33:49 Z

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.

Extension of influenza (flu) vaccination programme to include social care staff

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 13:00:00 Z

The Scottish Social Services Council, the Care Inspectorate, Scottish Care and the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland have issued a joint statement in support of the Scottish Government's decision to extend health board free flu vaccine programmes to include certain social care staff.

The new continuous professional learning requirement

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 09:35:16 Z

This autumn we will replace post registration training and learning (PRTL) with a new continuous professional learning (CPL) requirement.

Additional support for the early learning and childcare workforce

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 10:48:30 Z

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.