The Scottish Social Services Council is responsible for raising standards in the Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 social service workforce.

The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) was established in October 2001 by the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act and is responsible for registering people who work in the social services and regulating their education and training.

Objectives

• to protect those who use services
• to raise standards of practice
• to strengthen and support the professionalism of the workforce

Responsibilities

• to set up registers of key groups of social service staff
• to publish Codes of Practice for social service workers and employers
• to regulate the training and education of the workforce
• to promote education and training
• to undertake the function of Skills for Care and Development.

Registration

The following social service workers will already be or will have to be registered with the SSSC in the future:

• social workers
• students on the social work honours degree and postgraduate programmes
• Care Commission officers
• all workers in residential child care services (this includes managers, supervisors and workers)
• managers of care home services for adults
• managers of adult day care services
• all workers in day care of children services
• all workers in school care accommodation services
• all other workers in care home services for adults
• all workers in housing support services
• managers of care at home services.