The Deputy Minister for Social Services Julie Morgan has announced that new social work students, who start their studies from September onwards, will receive significantly higher bursaries. An extra £3.5
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The Government has been warned by healthcare leaders that scrapping BTEC vocational qualifications could reduce the number of nurses. Danny Mortimer, deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation, has written
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Scotland’s colleges are hoping a new online course will help boost the number of people working in the social care sector. There will be 1,800 funded spaces for the new
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As part of Scottish Government’s Programme for Government (PfG) commitment to develop a national induction framework for new entrants to adult social care, the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) and
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Money is to be given to health and social care students to help them complete their studies and go into the sector, the Welsh Government has announced. The £1.8 million
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As Skills for Care celebrate the official launch of the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) their CEO Oonagh Smyth reflects on the impact that those using the service
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The latest Skills for Care data estimates that for the adult social care workforce to grow proportionally to the projected number of people aged 65 and over, an extra 490,000
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The demand for adult social care qualifications is set to rise dramatically over the next four years according to a new report the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) published today.
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Claims that physiotherapists are being substituted for nurses are “misleading”, senior physiotherapists have said. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has called for a crackdown on the advertising of nursing
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The Royal College of Nursing is calling for a crackdown on the advertising of nursing jobs for people who do not have the proper qualifications to fill them. The RCN
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