The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) have launched an innovative new guidance kit to help disabled social work and teaching students to achieve their full potential. The guidance helps lecturers, tutors and others involved with students to provide vital learning support. The ‘Learning support for disabled social work and teaching students: a guide’ was developed in response to the then Disability Rights Commission recommendation in its Maintaining Standards: Promoting Equality report which asked that all regulatory bodies provide guidance on reasonable adjustments and consider what other guidance is required to encourage others, such as universities, to adopt an enabling approach to disabled people.

Do you use a service or care for someone who does? We are carrying out our annual study of the social service workforce’s skills needs and want to hear from you.

A summary on the Re-imagining workforce development and planning for social services project.

Anna Fowlie’s response highlighting our plans to take forward the recommendations that came out of the project.

The SSSC is consulting on proposals to consolidate qualifications for registration. Consultation events have been planned and you are invited to attend. If you are able to make it to one of the events, please let us know by completing the booking form and sending it back to us.

Consultation on the parts of the Register and qualification requirements for registration of workers in care at home services and consultation on the function descriptors for workers in housing support services.