Our Work

Our mission is to identify, represent, promote and safeguard the interests of third sector and not-for-profit social care and support providers in Scotland, so that they can maximise the impact they have on meeting social need.

CCPS is the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland.

Our mission is to identify, represent, promote and safeguard the interests of third sector and not-for-profit social care and support providers in Scotland, so that they can maximise the impact they have on meeting social need.

We aim to provide solutions and thought leadership in policy for the social care sector. Our work is built with the expert voices of our active membership. We engage collaboratively with partners across sectors.

We currently run a number of Scottish Government funded workstreams to help us meet our mission:

Our Commissioning and Procurement Programme is actively building leadership, promoting new ideas and supporting change towards the all-important delivery of ethical commissioning and procurement in social care.  We work in active partnership with commissioners, providers and supported people.

Our Workforce Development Network supports third sector social care providers to contribute to national workforce agendas and works to underpin essential sustainability for the sector.  This includes influencing the national Fair Work agenda, the future of regulation and workforce planning.

Our Digital Programme provides support, information, learning and development opportunities to third sector providers in the digital arena, as well as running problem solving networks.  It is now heavily engaged in helping to shape digital opportunities through the National Care Service.

Our Children and Young People’s Programme gathers expertise from the sector to influence key areas of national work, such as the Whole Family Wellbeing Fund.

In addition, we work with our membership to influence the wider reform agenda through the National Care Service, we speak up for the sector around wider issues of sustainability during these difficult economic times, and we were a key player in ensuring the needs of the sector have been reflected in COVID planning.

CCPS also hosts the Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Forum and the Housing Support Enabling Unit (in collaboration with the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations).

 

Rachel Cackett

Chief Executive Officer

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All about careers in social care

A downloadable resource for recruitment and raising awareness of the sector

Please download and make use of our information sheet about the careers available in social care in the voluntary sector.

This is a two-page resource looking at:

  • Who can work in social care (information on qualifications, skills and criminal records)
  • The range of jobs that are available
  • Personal care – when and how it fits into a social care role
  • What working in social care means for your pay, job security, working patterns and career development

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Workforce

The Workforce Development Network (WDN) supports voluntary sector social services providers to contribute to the national workforce agenda with the ultimate aim of improving outcomes for people who use services.

The Workforce Development Network (WDN), through a grant from Scottish Government, supports voluntary sector social services providers to contribute to the national workforce agenda with the ultimate aim of improving outcomes for people who use services.

The WDN supports providers to:

  • build their capacity for workforce development and workforce engagement;
  • contribute to the development of workforce policy and practice;
  • contribute their expertise and experience to relevant advisory and working groups;

CCPS Workforce Development Priorities

The WDN has three priorities, which underlie all of its work:

  • The voluntary sector social service workforce is considered and treated as a key and equal partner in major policy and practice developments;
  • Voluntary sector evidence, expertise and providers’ perspectives influence the development of social services workforce policy;
  • Government and other stakeholders recognise the value of the sector’s workforce and ensure this is appropriately rewarded with particular reference to recruitment and retention issues.

The priorities compliment work being taken forward independently by CCPS in accordance with our workforce related strategic outcome: ‘The voluntary sector provider workforce is well qualified, competent and confident, with good pay and conditions’.

We look at issues related to:

  • Regulation
  • Support for the workforce with digital technology
  • Legislation, policy and practice developments
  • Workforce sustainability (recruitment, retention and workforce planning)

The main areas of focus for the second half of 2021 will be safer recruitment, digital skills and workforce planning.

We will also continue to support providers with workforce issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, both in terms of short-term response and long-term recovery.

For further information, contact our team:

  • Alison Christie –  Policy Programmes Lead (Workforce)
  • Kristy Lambert – Policy & Project Officer (Workforce)
  • Kyle Hylan-Corcoran – Policy & Project Officer (Workforce)

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Workforce: Benchmarking the Voluntary Sector Workforce

A workforce resource in partnership with the HR Voluntary Sector Forum

2021 Benchmarking Report for CCPS and the HR Voluntary Sector Forum - Executive Summary

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The annual workforce benchmarking survey, a partnership between CCPS, the HR Voluntary Sector Forum and the University of Strathclyde, has been an invaluable source of voluntary sector data for over ten years and the findings used by the sector to influence national decision making.

The survey is designed to identify workforce trends and issues and generate data on a broad range of critical staffing issues across the sector.

The information collated has enabled CCPS to work in collaboration with the participants to identify and evidence issues of opportunity and challenge and ensure that these are given a focus at national level.

The 2021/ 22 Executive Summary provides information on the workforce issues listed:

  • Workforce profile
  • Working time and flexibility
  • Pay and conditions
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Employee participation and involvement
  • Training and skills
  • Discipline and grievance
  • Equality and diversity

 

 

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