The Year of Active Membership
About the Year of Active Membership
Scottish Care is delighted to announce that 2025 is the Year of Active Membership.
This year, we are fully committed to engaging with our members, amplifying your voices, and ensuring you play a central role in shaping the future of social care.
We are dedicated to fostering two-way dialogue, where your insights continue to drive our priority actions and advocacy. This will involve numerous opportunities for you to get involved, share your expertise and contribute to the sector’s future.
In the midst of a #socialcarecrisis, never more has your voice mattered. Together, we can make 2025 a defining year for the future of social care.
How can I get involved in the Year of Active Membership?
Scottish Care’s national team is on hand to engage with our membership across a range of topics. Detailed below, here is what priority areas we’re working on now:
Becca Young – Policy & Research Manager – [email protected]
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- National Insurance Contributions
- The National Care Service
- Palliative Care Strategy
- Freedom of Information Extension
- Publications and Data
Ifeoluwa Asefon – Policy and Research Officer [email protected]
Caroline Deane – Workforce Policy & Practice Lead – [email protected]
Fraser Smith – Policy Lead (Ethical Commissioning) – [email protected]
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- Funding of specialist equipment
- Commissioning and procurement matters
- Business sustainability
- Care Home Admission and Charging Policy
Nicola Cooper – Technology & Digital Innovation Lead – [email protected]
Stefanie Callaghan – Membership Support Manager – [email protected]
Scottish Care’s range of membership groups provide an opportunity to delivering your insights on the critical issues impacting the sector:
The Strategic Workforce Group (SWG)
Workforce Matters is delighted to invite you to join the newly formed SWG for Scottish Care members; aimed at social care managers, frontline workers, directors and business owners working in the social care sector.
The SWG provides a dedicated space for members to raise and discuss workforce topics, ensuring that Scottish Government workstreams (Fair Work and Workforce Planning) are being informed directly by the social care sector.
Membership remains open to all members, and those interested are invited to get in contact through [email protected].
The Strategic Business Sustainability Working Group (SBSG)
The SBSG welcome the expertise of our members on matters relating to business sustainability, commissioning and procurement, to drive Scottish Care’s ongoing advocacy.
Membership remains open to all members, and those interested are invited to get in contact through [email protected].
This could be written (300 words max) or a video or audio clip (2 minute max).
You can send it to us here. Or fill out the form below.
Our upcoming Manifesto 2025 outlines the key reform and funding requirements of the independent adult social care sector.
Members are invited to shape our upcoming campaign and our priority asks. Stay tuned for further consultation in this regard.
Our active membership toolkit will provide a range of resources in support of your contributions to a year of active membership.
Stay tuned for our revised care home and care at home toolkits, including but not limited to letter templates, Who’s Who guide, infographics and video content.
On May 2024, Scottish Care’s Briefing Report detailed widespread delay in receiving payment for delivered care packages from respective Local Authorities or Health Boards.
Given the significant impact of such ongoing delays on the sustainability of the adult social care sector, this template letter has been developed by Scottish Care, to support our members’ efforts to receive delayed payments for delivered care services.
So far in 2025, the following resources have been developed through our year of active membership.
- January 2025 – “It Feels Like We Don’t Exist”: Scottish Care Calls for Action Following Care at Home Membership Survey
Our research draws attention to the stark impact of ongoing funding pressures, the untold stress on the sustainability of providers across Scotland, and diminished access to an adequate level of person-led care.
- February 2025 – “I worry about the Future” – 49% of Care Homes Report a Decrease in Placements
Scottish Care’s latest research: “I worry about the Future”, details the significant decrease in Local Authority or Health Board placements across the country. This includes the concerning practice of ‘2:1’ placement policies, requiring two residents to pass away before a home can receive the funding for one placement.
To ensure the ongoing efficacy of the year of active membership, Scottish Care will be providing a range of forums to guide our campaign and ensure two-way dialogue.
