Sector Skills Assessment for the Scottish social services sector
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Sector Skills Assessment 2010The Sector Skills Assessment for Scotland is now available.
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The SSSC is part of Skills for Care and Development (the Sector Skills Council for the 1.87 million people working in the social care, children and young people's sector in the UK). It is an alliance of six organisations, including the SSSC. Each member of the alliance has published a Sector Skills Assessment, while there is also a national report which explores key messages for the UK workforce. The social services sector has grown rapidly in recent years and is believed to employ approximately 198,000 individuals in Scotland as of December 2007.
Sector Skills Councils are required to produce a sector skills assessment on an annual basis. These assessments examine the sector's skills needs, and focus on three issues:
- What drives skills demand?
- Current skills needs
- Future trends which will have skills implications for the workforce
Blake Stevenson were commissioned by the SSSC to undertake a series of focus groups and strategic interviews during December 2009 and January 2010 to ascertain the views of key stakeholders on current and future skills issues for the social services sector in Scotland. This assessment was primarily developed using Scottish data compiled by the SSSC and uses a range of key data sources, including the Care Commission's annual returns, the annual survey of local authority social work services, the Labour Force Survey (LFS), and the Scottish Employers Skills Survey (SESS).
The SSSC published the first Sector Skills Assessment for the social services workforce in Scotland in the summer of 2010. A summary of the key findings from the Sector Skills Assessment for the social services workforce in Scotland will also be available in due course.
If you have any additional questions about the Sector Skills Assessment for the social services workforce in Scotland please contact Neil Macleod, Education and Workforce Development Adviser at Neil.Macleod@sssc.uk.com
Get Skilled magazine
We have produced special edition SSSC newsletters which describe some of the work undertaken by the Education and Workforce Development team, including the implementation of the Sector Skills Agreement.
- Get Skilled issue three - Autumn 2009
This issue of Get Skilled looks at projects which contribute to skills solutions and challenges identified in the Sector Skills Agreement. - Get Skilled issue two - Spring 2009
This issue of Get Skilled looks at projects which contribute to skills solutions and challenges identified in the Sector Skills Agreement. - Get Skilled issue one - Winter 2008
The first issue of Get Skilled describes the Sector Skills Agreement.
Intelligence
Intelligence bulletins let you find out more about the workforce and help plan the Scottish social services workforce for the future.
- Issue two - labour market information
The second issue looks at labour market information within the Scottish social services workforce and how this information plays an important role in helping employers undertake effective workforce planning. - Issue one - migrant workers
This edition of Intelligence gives details from a range of sources, and presents results of a survey of care homes, providing information on migrant workers employed in adult residential care, including services for older adults. This highlights that the number of migrant works in social services is lower than in other sectors.
