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Scottish Government Recruitment Focused Webinars – January 2023

Scottish Government would like to invite you to a series of Recruitment focused webinars which will be hosted by the Scottish Government but presented by partners, providers and experts from across the sector and within the field of employability, marketing and recruitment.

These will hosted week commencing the 9th of January and will include two webinar topics:

 

  • Recruitment Routes – Employability Partners
  • Apprenticeships and how to access as an employer from an employer’s perspective
  • Prince’s Trust employability programmes, supporting young people into roles in social care
  • Accessing local support from Developing the Young Workforce

 

  • Recruitment Insights and Marketing Support for Recruitment
  • Sharing overview of new approaches and success stories
  • Recruitment Guidance available
  • PR Approaches – Local
  • Social Media
  • Advice and Guidance
  • Support available

There are 2 dates for each topic to provide opportunity for you to hopefully join one of the dates and times offered. These are confirmed below:

Recruitment Insights and Marketing Support for Recruitment

Thursday 12th of January 09:30 – 10:30

Recruitment Routes – Employability Partners

Wednesday 11th January 09:30 – 11:00

Meeting links are hyperlinked in the dates and time above.

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Scottish Government Recruitment Webinars – January 2023

Scottish Government would like to invite you to a series of Recruitment focused webinars which will be hosted by them but presented by partners, providers and experts from across the sector and within the field of employability, marketing and recruitment.

These will hosted week commencing the 9th of January and will include two webinar topics:

Recruitment Routes – Employability Partners

  • Apprenticeships and how to access as an employer from an employer’s perspective
  • Prince’s Trust employability programmes, supporting young people into roles in social care
  • Accessing local support from Developing the Young Workforce

Recruitment Insights and Marketing Support for Recruitment

  • Sharing overview of new approaches and success stories
  • Recruitment Guidance available
  • PR Approaches – Local
  • Social Media
  • Advice and Guidance
  • Support available

 2 dates will be offered for each topic to provide opportunity for you to hopefully join one of the dates and times offered. These are confirmed below:

Recruitment Insights and Marketing Support for Recruitment
Monday 9th of January 14:00 – 15:30
Thursday 12th of January 09:30 – 11:00

Recruitment Routes – Employability Partners
Tuesday 10th January 13:30 – 15:30
Wednesday 11th January 09:30 – 11:30

Links to the webinars will be issued the week commencing the 2nd of January, along with an overview and agenda for both topics.

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Winter Bulletin 2022

This year’s Winter Bulletin has now been published online and is available to view.

We are in the process of redesigning our quarterly Bulletins. If you have any feedback or ideas of what you’d like to see in the Bulletin, please get in touch at [email protected].

This edition is filled with updates, information and stories from the social care sector. We even featured a Christmas spread to highlight all the Christmas activities members have got up to! Huge thanks to everyone who sent in images for this to spread the Christmas spirit. Please give it a read!

Winter Bulletin 2022-compressed
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T34 Pump Guidance

Please see below for guidance on the use of T34 and the different models.

The battery life was as short as 24 hours but they may not have been withdrawn, A decision was made to issue them only in hospitals, where a battery could easily be replace. Version 2 is to be used in community settings.

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Care England and Scottish Care VAT Webinar with Grant Thornton

Care England and Scottish Care VAT Webinar with Grant Thornton UK LLP

Care England and Scottish Care are hosting another webinar on Thursday 19 January, 2:00 – 3:00 pm , on the subject of the VAT-efficient provision of welfare services.  The webinar is aimed at raising awareness of how care providers can restructure the provision of welfare services to enable VAT recovery on publicly funded contracts. We are in challenging financial times due to the central government funding of adult social care on top of the cost-of-living crisis nationally. Restructuring the provision of welfare services is a solution to recover input VAT for care providers on Local Authority and NHS-funded contracts, which would add to the bottom line and subsequently EBITDA.

Care England and Scottish Care will be joined by Grant Thornton UK LLP who will be presenting the webinar, will provide an overview of the VAT opportunity and will answer any questions you may have. Grant Thornton has been working in collaboration with Care England to raise awareness of this opportunity for several years and has worked with a number of Care England and Scottish Care members to implement the restructuring.

Not all local authorities and NHS bodies currently permit VAT recovery, however, close to 50% do, and as such we see a significant amount of additional funding which can be made available to your organisation to help offset some of the cost pressures providers are facing now.  We believe that increasing the number of requests from providers will support the argument for VAT recovery in all local authority and NHS areas.

We hope you will join this webinar and consider if this VAT opportunity is something your organisation would like to consider further.  This is not a sales opportunity, instead an opportunity to raise awareness, share knowledge and provide an update of the current regulatory landscape.  All materials will be shared after the session, to those who are interested, together with contact details for Nick Garside and Emma Lomas of Grant Thornton UK LLP.

Details to register for this webinar is available on the Members Area.

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Formal publication of the Data Strategy – November 2022

Formal publication of the Data Strategy for Health and Social Care Analysis of Consultation Responses, Submitted Consultation Responses and We Asked You Said We Did.

Digital approaches to health and care and the data that drives it has been vital to how we’ve continued to deliver services and offers opportunities to support our plans for remobilisation. As part of the refreshed Digital Health and Care Strategy the Scottish Government are committed to publishing Scotland’s first ever Data Strategy.

The Digital Health and Care directorate have, and continue to, undertake a broad range of engagement with stakeholders and the public to support the development the Data Strategy. You can find a summary of their findings to date here: https://www.digihealthcare.scot/app/uploads/2022/05/Data-Strategy-HSC-Engagement-Summary-March-2022-pdf.pdf

The Data Strategy for Health and Social Care Analysis of Consultation Responses has been published and can now be viewed on Gov.scot

Also the responses submitted to the Data Strategy for Health and Social Care consultation have been published on Citizen Space along with the We Asked, You Said, We Did

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Care Home VAT Restructuring Webinar

Thursday 1 December, 2:00 – 3:00 pm

Scottish Care have joined up with Care England to host a webinar on the 1st December from 2:00 -3:00 pm regarding VAT restructuring. We are in challenging financial times due to the lack of local authority funding on top of the cost-of-living crisis nationally. VAT restructuring is a solution to recover input VAT for care homes on local authority and NHS funded resident contracts. Care Homes are currently unable to recover VAT without restructuring, due to the existing VAT exemption in place. Any VAT restructuring to recover VAT as a result is subject to both HMRC and Regulatory approval which has been obtained successfully in the past and equates to an uplift fee equivalent of over 3% to 5%, and is of zero costs the local authority and NHS other than an amendment to their contracts as they can recover VAT charged in full via HMRC, by way of their usual VAT returns.

The webinars are aimed at raising awareness of how care home providers can restructure their organisations to enable VAT recovery on publicly funded contracts. Highly regarded VAT specialist firm, Kieran Lynch will provide an overview of the process and answer any questions or concerns you have. They offer practical support and guidance and will work with you should you wish to look at opportunities for your organisation.  Not all local authorities and NHS bodies currently permit VAT recovery, however, close to 50% do, and as such we see a significant amount of additional funding which can be made available to your organisation to help offset some of the cost pressures providers are facing now. We believe that increasing numbers of request from providers will support the argument for VAT recovery in all local authority and NHS areas.

We hope you will join this webinar and consider if VAT restructuring is something your organisation is keen to consider. This is not a sales opportunity; materials will be shared after the session to those who are interested to contact Kieran Lynch directly.

Please note that Grant Thornton will no longer be attending this webinar, there will be another webinar in the new year scheduled with Grant Thornton. More details to follow.

Please head to our Members Area to register for this webinar.
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Launch of the Social Care Campaign

We are delighted to launch the ‘Social Care Campaign’ today (Thursday 24 November 2022). Scottish Care worked with members to produce the ‘Social Care Campaign’. This campaign aims to raise the profile of social care in Scotland, across care homes and homecare. We hope to use the campaign as a positive vehicle for sharing good practice, information and evidencing the sector’s value.

Today, we are seeing a crisis in social care like nothing we have seen before – with workforce shortages, the rising cost of living and other problems which make it increasingly challenging for sustainability.

Now is the time to #careaboutcare. We need your help to get involved in this campaign and #shinealight on the social care sector.

You can get involved by sharing your stories with us (through either written words, video or audio clips), sending letters to MSPs, pledging your support and sharing the campaign with others. We will also be hosting an online lobby day in January – more details to follow.

As part of this campaign, we are producing videos that highlight the positivity of the social care sector. We are currently looking for user-generated content for this (with the appropriate permissions) which highlights the relationships built between care home residents, homecare service users and their care workers and any activities undertaken in the sector. The guide to filming this content is available here. Please send these videos to [email protected].

At the Care Home Conference 2022, last week, we launched a mini care home film – you can watch it here.

Information on the campaign is available at: https://scottishcare.org/social-care-campaign/