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Summary Docs & Articles
The Workforce Unit has produced a number of summary documents and articles on topics and developments that will be of interest to voluntary sector providers of social care.
Summary Documents
- Skills Development Scotland - Summary of the first corporate plan [pdf-128kB] (2010) [pdf-23.5kB]
- Skills Development Scotland - Summary of the first operating plan [pdf-23.5kB] (2008)
- Skills for Scotland: A lifelong learning strategy [pdf-515kB] (2007)
- Safer Recruitment through better recruitment: guidance in relation to staff working in social work and social care settings [pdf-221kB] (2007)
- The Scottish Labour Market 2006 [pdf-98.4kB] (2006)
- ‘Changing Lives' - the 21st Century Social Work Review [pdf-101kB] (2006)
- 'Changing Lives' - Implementation Plan [pdf-181kB] (2006)
- National Strategy for the Development of the Social Services Workforce, A Plan for Action 2005-2010 [pdf-79.5kB] (2005)
- Improving Front Line Services - A Framework for Supporting Front Line Staff [pdf-115kB] (2005)
- Scottish Social Services Labour Market:2nd Report of National Workforce Group [pdf-98.4kB] (2006)
Articles
- Are recruitment difficulties in social care about to get worse? [pdf-68.8kB](August 2008)
- Workforce Development Matters: Retaining the social service workforce you need and want [pdf-61.1kB](November 2007)
- Workforce Development Matters: The FAQs of Registration [pdf-64.6kB] (October 2007)
- Workforce Development Matters: The Importance of Recruitment [pdf-68.8kB] (September 2007)
- Registration of the social care workforce - a UK agenda [pdf-78.6kB] (January 2007)
- Workforce Planning: building your workforce for the future [pdf-1.36MB] (January 2007)
- All change - An examination of the changing context for the development of the voluntary sector social services workforce in Scotland [pdf-62.7kB] (December 2006)