November 2021. The Ingredients for Growth | Scottish Care |
Care providers across Scotland have told them that they have mixed experience of regulation and oversight and feel that there is confusion between the two. This report aims to capture the range of experience and the impact that is having upon the sector, as well as to explore potential improvement for the future.
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October 2021. The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England | Skills for Care. |
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the adult social care workforce in England and the characteristics of the 1.54 million people working in it. Topics covered include: Changes in the adult social care workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic, employment information, recruitment and retention, demographics, pay, qualification rates and future workforce forecasts.
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October 2021. Scotland’s Digital Health and Care Response to COVID-19 2021 update | Scottish Government |
This report prepared by the Digital Health and Care Directorate of the Scottish Government provides an update on the scale-up and adoption of digital health and care solutions in Scotland, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report is intended to: inform our stakeholders of activity undertaken as part of the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 response; enable decision makers to identify areas for further prioritisation; inform the identification of key lessons learned; and share learning with other countries.
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August 2021. Workforce pressures | The National Care Forum |
The social care sector and social care workforce are facing increasing challenges. NCF reports provide information from the latest survey results, commentary on the workforce crisis, the Skills for Care State of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England 2021 Report and Experimental data from the Government about self-funders to highlight some of the key challenges facing the sector.
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June 2021. Breaks or breakdown | Carers Week 2021 |
This research shows the impact of reduced support from both services and family and friends has had on carers’ health and wellbeing. It demonstrates that without the right interventions there could be more carer breakdown and why the UK Government should increase funding for carers’ breaks, so all carers providing significant hours of care have access to a meaningful break.
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July 2021. Time for change | Scottish Care |
This paper reviews the recommendations of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care and the actions emerging from ‘Coileanadh’ to explore the synergies and areas of opportunity that can help to overcome the implementation gap and articulate the key requirements of a National Care Framework.
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July 2021. Enhancing health and economic resilience for a better future | Business for Health |
A key priority for Business for Health is the development of an Index to measure contribution of health as a part of a wider process to get ‘Health’ into ESG mandates (ie ‘ESHG’). = The framework will act as the routemap for the development of the Business Index, enabled by our growing ecosystem of members testing out the Index in proof-of-concept pilots and helping companies move to a desired position of creating and improving health.
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June 2021. Seeing the diamond in social care data | Scottish Care |
In this paper, they share our vision for social care data and share the findings of a series of data forums hosted by Scottish Care involving colleagues from across the social care sector, industry, academia, and government. They articulate the value and potential of social care data and the need to create the right conditions to ensure that its worth can be uncovered and harnessed. They aim to reveal the diamond in data towards a person led vision which creates value for all.
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May 2021. A guide to attracting and retaining a thriving social care workforce | Total jobs Work Foundation |
This report aims to support care providers navigating these challenges, highlighting key insights from our research and offering recommendations for employers and government to create long-term solutions for a thriving workforce – from tackling misconceptions to supporting employee wellbeing.
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May 2021. Coileanadh, Manifesting a flourishing social care future for Scotland | Scottish Care |
The output of phase two of the ‘Collective Care Future’ programme. The visual landscape embodies the contributions of a diverse range of expertise and experiences from providers, staff, people supported, families and wider partners in care and support in Scotland. The findings include eight concepts and three priority areas of focus relating to the overarching philosophy and culture, the policy and partnership enablers, and the way in which change can be enacted in social care practice.
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April 2021. Fractured and forgotten? The social care provider market in England | Nuffield Trust |
Social care providers in England have been thrown into the spotlight over the last year as they were hit by Covid-19. But providers of these vital care services are still too often ignored in the increasingly intense discussion around reforming our failing system. This report lays out 10 systemic problems with the way our market for social care operates, and argues that unless they are resolved, funding reforms alone will fail to deliver sustainable change.
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April 2021. A look to the future – achieving the nursing vision | Scottish Care |
This report summarises the findings from the 2021 Scottish Care Nursing Survey, which was issued in April 2021 to Scottish Care members with nursing provision. Questions were asked around longstanding issues for the sector, such as recruitment and retention, the importance of wellbeing, and what providers would like to see as the future of social care nursing in Scotland.
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February 2021. The Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland | Scottish Government |
Led by Derek Feeley, a former Scottish Government Director General for Health and Social Care and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland. A good deal of public attention to social care support has been recently focused on care homes. They make a number of recommendations specific to the care home sector and, at the same time, it is important to recognise that most social care support is delivered in local communities and in people’s homes.
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January 2021. What does a human right to social care look like? | Scottish Care
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This paper seeks to describe what such a human right to social care could look like in practice. It is written at a time of real turmoil and debate about social care in general and specifically the future of adult social care in Scotland.
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January 2021. Manifesto 2021 | Scottish Care
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The theme of this manifesto echoes that of the call for a social care covenant, included in the Independent Review for Adult Social Care. They welcome the concept of a social covenant ensuring that everyone can get the social care support they need to live their lives as they choose and to be active citizens.
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November 2020. Lessons and Legacy from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Health and Care | AHSN Network
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Collider Health worked with the AHSN Network on a short research study to understand how technology has been an enabler in reducing the care burden and coping with the COVID-19 crisis, and to identify what should be sustained in the ‘new normal’ longer-term. The findings, highlight the importance of treating health as our greatest national asset to nurture and protect, with preventative health requiring more attention in the long-term. Importantly, social care needs to be given the same weighting as to the NHS to accelerate the move towards health and social care integration.
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September 2020. Care home markets in England 2020 | Personal Social Services Research Unit
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This report assesses local care home market supply in England. In particular, it offers analysis of the time and spatial dynamics of the supply of care homes and explores the role of Local Authority (LA) expenditure in this market. This report is part of a research project examining regional social care market dynamics.
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October 2020. Caring for Britain – The Alternative Green Paper | Legal & General
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The stories in this report show that there is much more to be done to support older adults. They also show that there is some ground‑breaking thinking, research and delivery happening right now. |
August 2020. Scottish Social Service Sector: Report on 2019 Workforce Data | Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)
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The report combines administrative data from the Care Inspectorate with data collected directly from local authorities by the SSSC to form a comprehensive picture of the paid workforce employed in the social service sector in Scotland at the end of 2019. This report provides an overview of the data at a national level and, where possible, also provides data sub-divided by sub-sector or local authority area.
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November 2019 Scottish Government Health and Social Care | Implications of labour markets for the social care workforce
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The aim of this study is to better understand the influences that national and local labour markets have on the social care sector, how different parts of the social care sector interact and the implications for workforce planning.
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November 2019. Experience of the Experienced | Scottish Care
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This report shares the words of the women and men who work in care homes, care at home and housing support services. This includes their story of dedication and ability, which is making a difference to the lives of some of our most vulnerable citizens. The experience of age, skills, talents and creativity these individuals bring is what is daily transforming the lives of countless people across Scotland today. In every sense it is the experienced who are enabling an experience of dignity, purposefulness and value in the lives of those they care for and support.
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January 2018. Recruitment and retention in adult social care services | The Policy Institute, King's College London
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This report presents findings from research in England undertaken in 2017 to inform debates about a possible new government social care workforce strategy.
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November 2017. Fragile Foundations: Exploring the mental health of the social care workforce and the people they support | Scottish Care
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This report seeks to describe the experiences of those who work in care at home and care home services and who every day are supporting individuals to live better lives and to overcome the mental stress and distress that crowds in on their living. It shares the voices of a workforce offering dedicated, person-centred care but which is itself struggling to deal with the very real challenges which caring itself brings.
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