Social care in Scotland encompasses
social work
Social work is an academic discipline and practice-based profession concerned with meeting the basic needs of individuals, families, groups, communities, and society as a whole to enhance their individual and collective well-being. Social wo ...
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care home services in the community for adults, children and young people; and services for young children, including nurseries and
after-school care clubs
After-school activities, also known as after-school programs or after-school care, started in the early 1900s mainly just as supervision of students after the final school bell. Today, after-school programs do much more. There is a focus on helping ...
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National Care Service
The National Care Service (NCS) is a proposed publicly funded system of social care in the United Kingdom which was partially introduced by the Labour government of Gordon Brown in 2010 but abandoned soon after when the coalition government of ...
The
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill was published in June 2022. It would allow Scottish Ministers to transfer social care responsibility from local authorities to a new, national service.
Workforce
there are approximately 203,200 people employed within social services in the country.
Older people
A
community building project,
Older People for Older People, resulted in a film being made in 2010 about how older people's skills were used in
Ardersier to assist other older people.
Criminal justice
There is no
probation service in Scotland. The equivalent function is carried out by criminal justice social workers, who are part of local authorities’ social work departments. Criminal justice social workers follow the same entry procedure as other social workers.
Housing
The
University of Stirling,
Housing Options Scotland and
Horizon Housing Association conducted a study of allocations and lettings practice for accessible and adapted social housing in 2018. They found that most of the 28 disabled home-seekers in their study received inappropriate housing offers, or no offers at all.
See also
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Care Inspectorate
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Children's hearing system
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Cornerstone Community Care
Cornerstone, formerly known as Cornerstone Community Care, is a Scottish charity and social enterprise that provides support and care to children, adults and older adults living a range of long-term conditions and challenges. These include aut ...
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Criminal Justice Social Work Services
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Education in Scotland
Education in Scotland is overseen by the Scottish Government and its executive agency Education Scotland. Education in Scotland has a history of universal provision of public education, and the Scottish education system is distinctly diffe ...
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Health and Social Care Directorates
The Health and Social Care Directorates are a group of directorates of the Scottish Government. They are responsible for NHS Scotland, as well as policies on the development and implementation of health and social care.
The Chief Executive of NH ...
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Healthcare in Scotland
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Local government in Scotland
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NHS Scotland
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Quarriers
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Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People
The Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland is a post in Scotland whose main task is to promote and safeguard the rights of children and young people. The position, equivalent to the Children's Ombudsman agencies of many other countrie ...
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Scots law
Scots law () is the legal system of Scotland. It is a hybrid or mixed legal system containing civil law and common law elements, that traces its roots to a number of different historical sources. Together with English law and Northern Ireland ...
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Scottish Children's Reporter Administration
The Scottish Children's Reporter Administration (SCRA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, with responsibility for protecting children at risk. SCRA was formed under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 ...
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Scottish Social Services Council
The Scottish Social Services Council is responsible for raising standards in the country's social service workforce.
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) was established in October 2001 by thRegulation of Care (Scotland) Actand is resp ...
References
Further reading
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External links
Staff of Scottish Local Authority Social Work Services, 2010 Scottish Government
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Probation
Scottish criminal law