News
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18 March 2026CCPS responds to the Scottish Government's announcement on the creation of a new voluntary social care bargaining forum. -
17 March 2026CCPS, the Housing Support Enabling Unit, and the Everyone Home Collective jointly issue position paper on a national housing agency. -
2 March 2026Join us at our next in person event in Edinburgh to discuss the strategic importance and delivery of housing support. -
25 February 2026While we welcome the move to return £20m of funding to social care, the budget still does not go anywhere near far enough to support a sector which is facing immense jeopardy -
12 February 2026CCPS welcomes the Scottish Government’s announcements today that it has committed to provide £20m of additional funds to meet Real Living Wage commitments in social care -
12 February 2026Our response to comments at Holyrood today on potential amendments to the 2026-27 Scottish Budget -
11 February 2026We're calling on the Scottish Government to reverse its budget decision which could create an estimated £19 million funding shortfall in the social care sector -
3 February 2026Following the decision in the 2026-27 Budget to alter the way pay for frontline staff in commissioned social care services is funded, we've published a briefing explaining the key issues involved and rebutting claims that changing the social care pay calculation is a reasonable choice -
21 January 2026The decision to change how the amount of money invested in social care pay next year is calculated will mean even less funds for the frontline, writes Rachel Cackett -
13 January 2026Our CEO Rachel Cackett on today's Scottish Budget statement at Holyrood -
8 January 2026CCPS is calling on the Scottish Government to prioritise increased social care investment in next week’s Budget after a report highlighted the scale of unnecessary NHS spending on delayed discharges. -
3 December 2025CCPS's CEO Rachel Cackett responds to today’s debate at Holyrood on the crisis in social care -
24 November 2025The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a report on social care charging, which calls on the Scottish Government and CoSLA to work together to remove non-residential care charges. -
24 November 2025Scotland’s outcome-focused support tool moves forward with longstanding technology partner -
13 November 2025CCPS's CEO Rachel Cackett responds to today's announcement from the Scottish Government on Winter Preparedness and National Planning Priorities for Health and Social Care