Welcome to issue 27 of the Voluntary Sector Social Services Workforce Unit's e-bulletin.
You are receiving this because you subscribed to e-bulletins from the Workforce Unit. If you have problems viewing the e-bulletin, please go to our website.
Our bulletins will keep you up to date with the latest voluntary sector social services workforce development issues. If you have a workforce development event or initiative you would like to publicise please let us know and we will include it in future editions.
If you think a colleague may be interested in the bulletin then please forward it. If they would like to sign up for the bulletin, they can get the form from our website.
If you have problems viewing the images, you can add this email address to your safe sender list or address book, or click in the image box and follow the instructions there.
Linda Hamilton
Unit Administrator
vswu.admin@ccpscotland.org
Content
The Workforce Unit is moving to new premises this month. We will be closed on 16th and 17th April while our office and computers are moved.
Our new address will be:
Jubilee House
Forthside Way
Stirling FK8 1QZ
Our phone and email addresses will remain the same.
The Unit has published a draft version of a document outlining the key organisations involved in social services.
The document is still in the early stages of development and the Unit would welcome your comments. Please email Linda Hamilton if you have any comments or suggestions.
The Spring edition of Workforce News includes information about the Workforce Unit's research into the impact of re-tendering on the voluntary sector workforce, and highlights the Unit's new guidance on choosing an SVQ provider.
'No Place like Home' is the theme for this year's Scottish Care at Home Annual Conference which will be held in Glasgow on the 29th of May.
Speakers include:
Download a booking form or contact Gloria Mcloughlin for more information.
Tayforth Learning Network, in partnership with the Scottish Government, will be launching its Leadership Communities on 29th April, 10am-3.30pm at Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre.
The event is for anyone working within the care sector in the Tayforth area who would like to be involved in setting up and participating in leadership communities across Tayforth.
For more info please email Isobel Ovens at Learning Network Tayforth.
This Care Subject Network event will look at developments from the Changing Lives Strategy, including:
To explore opportunities for partnership working in workforce development the network invites representatives from statutory, voluntary and private agencies to participate in this free one day event.
Legislation is coming into force on the 30th of April 2009 that will effectively set deadlines for regsitration with the SSSC for categories of the register that are currently open.
The legislation specifies "required registration" dates for each category of the register after which employers will be committing an offence if, without reasonable excuse, they employ a worker in a post subject to registration who is not registered with the SSSC or another relevant regulatory body e.g. the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
More information is available on the Workforce Unit website.
The Scottish Social Services Council will open the register for support workers in Care Home Services for Adults this month.
To register a worker must satisfy the criteria for registration. This includes holding the appropriate qualifications for the job they do and being able to evidence good character. Applicants for registration who do not hold the required qualifications may, if they meet all the other eligibility criteria, be granted registration subject to the condition that they achieve the required qualifications within a specified timescale.
More information is available from the SSSC website or view the qualifications criteria for registration.
The Scottish Government has published a progress update on the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme.
The new PVG scheme will replace and improve upon the current disclosure arrangements for people working with vulnerable groups. The new scheme is due to open in 2010.
'Funding and Support for Training: A Guide for Providers of Scottish Social Services 2009' has just been published by the SSSC.
The guide includes:
In response to the Crerar Review, Ministers announced on 6th November 2008 that there will be two new improvement and scrutiny organisations from April 2011 - a single body for healthcare services and another body for social work and social care services, including child protection and the integration of children's services. The new bodies will take on the work in these areas currently done by:
An update newsletter outlining the progress of the change so far is now available.
The Regulation of Care (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 and the Regulation of Care (Fitness to Register, Provide and Manage Care Services) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009 came into force on 1st April 2009.
The Care Commission has developed guidance for its staff on the application of the amended regulations. This guidance will also be helpful to service providers in their consideration of the fitness of staff and managers.
This email is intended for subscribers only. If you have received it by mistake, please email vswu.admin@ccpscotland.org, and you will be removed from the mailing list.
If you would like to remove your details from the mailing list at any point, please send an email to vswu.admin@ccpscotland.org and include your name, organisation and the email address you used to subscribe to the e-bulletin.
