Shifting the balance of care – Leads’ meeting

Mike Docherty – Senior Education and Workforce Development Adviser, Scottish Social Services Council

Workforce planning in the social services sector

Kirkcaldy11th December 2009

Context- The picture of the sector is complex – nationally and locally- Employers: 1400 Voluntary service providers

1500 Private service providers 32 Local Authorities

- Employment: Headcount social services workforce 2007

Type of employer Headcount

Local authority 68, 710

Private 66,430

Voluntary 56,320

Self employed 6,050

Total 197,510

Source: Care Commission and Scottish Government

Workforce Data

- Focus of much work in recent years

- 2003-04 – sectoral workforce data limited – partial picture

- 2005 – core minimum data set (CMDS) agreed

- 2006 – CMDS embedded in Scottish Government and Care Commission data gathering processes

- 2007 – data gathered with CMDS

- 2008 – Workforce Data Project established

- 2009 – analysis of data and data quality

Workforce Planning

- No statutory responsibility on employers for workforce planning

- Improvement Service survey of local authorities (2009)

- Registration agenda and workforce planning

- COSLA Demographic sub group – report on costings (2009)

- Ministerial Strategic Group – Reshaping services for older people Joint paper with Christine McGregor

Services to older people - the social services workforce

Estimate of number of staff in older people’s social services (2007)

Type of service Estimated no. of staff working with older people

Adult day care 3,696

All adult residential care 46,506

Care at Home 16,200

Housing Support Services 22,532

Total 88,934

Joint Improvement Team

- offer hands on support to Health and Social Care partnerships

- facilitate shared learning

- advice

- balance national priorities with local needs - SG/COSLA/NHS funded

- Older People’s workbook