Assessment and care management – its history and context within Scotland today
Over the last few months, Social Work Scotland have been involved in a series of conversations with partners from the …
Social Work Scotland AGM summary reports
We’ve put together a summary of the reports from our Standing Committees, subgroups and projects at Social Work Scotland, which …
Setting the Bar 2: ‘Taking the wheel’
The impact of ‘Setting the Bar’ In June 2022, we published ‘Setting the Bar’, a research report which sought to …
Pre-Budget Scrutiny Report 2023-2024
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2023-2024: In response to Criminal Justice Committee call for views 20 October 2022 Introduction Social Work Scotland is …
Setting the Bar: towards an indicative maximum caseload for Scotland’s public sector social workers
Social Work Scotland Briefing: 1 June 2022 Workforce and workforce planning Over the last few years, Social Work Scotland’s members …
Chief Social Work Officer Survey: 2021
The findings from this year’s Chief Social Work Office survey fall at an interesting time in the broader landscape; as …
Integrated health and social care in prisons: Tests of change: workstream findings and recommendations
This report results from more than 2 years of intensive exploration of the rationale for and the challenges of delivering …
Social Work leadership during COVID-19: March – November 2020
Introduction to the reports The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed health and social care to the forefront of our collective awareness …
Justice Social Work Routemap
The Scottish Government released the COVID-19 Routemap at the end of May 2020. The Routemap sets out four phases between lockdown and the resumption of life …
Safe and Together Scoping Report
The Scottish Parliament passed ground-breaking legislation in April 2019, recognising coercive control as a domestic abuse offence. At the same time …
