Now that the revised finance settlement has been approved by the Scottish Parliament, we updated our paper on the limited additional funding for social work and social care services, including updating the information on the distributions to each council. The paper also connects to Social Work Scotland’s recently published work on The State and Future of Social Work and Social Care Funding in Scotland and our Call to Action for the next Scottish government.
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This paper summarises the few identifiable increases for social work and social care services in…
In October 2025, after reports of reductions to Self-directed Support (SDS) personal budgets (options 1…
Welcome to a short(ish) overview of Social Work Scotland’s output and work during 2025. If…
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Self-directed Support (SDS) Learning and Improvement Framework 2024 Published 30 October 2024 This pack provides…
We’ve put together a summary of the reports from our Standing Committees, subgroups and projects…
The CSWO annual survey report 2023-24 findings fall at a critical time for the social…
The context within which professional social work is being practised in 2024 is perhaps the…
Introduction This report talks about something that is very important to people with care experience:…
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