About Us

Since 2005 the Workforce Unit has worked to achieve its aim of promoting and supporting employers delivering social services in the voluntary sector in the learning and development of their workforce. To maintain our successful work, we will continue to:

Improve the ability of voluntary sector social services employers to engage with the national workforce development agenda
Work collaboratively to improve the knowledge and picture we have of the voluntary sector social services workforce
Add value to the national workforce development agenda through optimising the Unit's role in supporting specific voluntary sector contributions
Improve the contribution made by voluntary sector social services organisations to the national agenda, through an advocacy and representation role

Read the Workforce Unit leaflet. [pdf-60.4kB]
This is also available in large print. [pdf-266kB]

Strategy and workplans

The Workforce Unit has a three-year strategy which sets out the context in which we work and the outcomes we hope to achieve. We also have annual workplans that detail how we will work towards the delivery of these outcomes.

Workforce Unit Executive Committee

The Voluntary Sector Social Services Workforce Unit is accountable to an Executive Committee, which meets four times a year and is responsible for:

setting the Unit's strategy, direction and work programme
overseeing its implementation
monitoring the Unit's budget.

Executive Committee members:

* Cathy Fallon (Loretto Housing Association) (Committee Chair)
* Helen Carlin (Rowan Alba)
* Celia Carson (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations)
* Kate Clark (Glasgow Simon Community)
* Neil Falconer (Independent consultant)
* Jason Glass (Camphill Blair Drummond)
* Annie Gunner Logan (Community Care Providers Scotland)
* Frances Scott (Scottish Social Services Council)
* Christine McGarvey (Assocation for Real Change)
* Donald MacKinnon (Key Housing)
* Catherine Rainey (Scottish Government)
* Sheila Scott (Inclusion Glasgow)
* Adrian Snowball (Independent consultant)
* Addie Stevenson (Aberlour Child Care Trust)

Annual report

The Unit's annual report for 2008/2009 [pdf-145kB] is available to download.

Our annual report 2007/2008 [pdf-85.7kB] is also available to download.