TURAS Update Webinar – 5 October

Thurs 5 Oct 2023, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Online via Microsoft Teams

This webinar is hosted by our Workforce Policy & Practice Lead, who will be joined by colleagues from the Scottish Government. This session is following on from recent communications on changes to the Safety Huddle Tool. It will give you an overview of what has changed and why. This will be followed by a question and answer session about the tool and the new questions.

This webinar is for Scottish Care members only. The meeting link is available on the Members Area of this website.

Social Care Emergency: Seeking future designers

Please join the RSA and Scottish Care for this exciting event in Glasgow

Wed, 1 Nov 2023 09:30 – 12:30 GMT

The Lantern, Hamish Wood Building
Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road,Glasgow G4 0BA

Register for this event here.

The RSA and Scottish Care invite you to collaborate on designing a better tomorrow.

In 2018 Scottish Care worked with the European school of innovation and design at Glasgow School of Art to explore the future of social care. The methodology incorporated Megatrends cards developed by Finish sustainable future organization Sitra and led to the creation of revolutionary new roles in social care such as the Care Technologist. More information on the first phase of this programme in 2018 can be found here.

Taking a future-orientated and ‘pop-up design’ approach (Teal and French 2016) Scottish Care hopes to engage participants in an informal space, enabling creative conversations about the potential of the future based upon the fundamental question “What If?”. This will result in outcomes based upon an understanding of what objects, technologies and ideas will be important and which actors will make up social care and support, shaping the direction for how it will look and feel in 25 years.

People will have grown up in different technological, economic, and social climates, with different family structures, friendships, and relationships. People will hold different opinions on what it means to ’live well’ These differences are very important to consider and may result in multiple futures to map in answer to the question ‘What next?’.

It’s now 2023 and a shifting global landscape has led to a social care emergency, but we are not defeated. Sitra has released an updated set of Megatrends offering us the opportunity to revisit this design methodology in search of a better tomorrow.

We invite you to join us in a human-led design process for all our futures.

We want this work to have legacy in the way that the 2018 version did, to change how and what care and support we access as we age. This time we want to go wider and see tying in with the RSA Design for Life three focus areas as a real opportunity to do this. Building capabilities: we will work from an active citizenship model, bringing together people from beyond the traditional boundaries of the health and social care system because futures thinking that enables us to live healthy lives for longer affects every one of us. Growing hubs: we will build knowledge networks of imagination in the social care space to enable design-led thinking with legacy by enabling space for creative conversations. Developing Infrastructure: we will work in the open, hosting the tools for design and the outputs from the work on our website. We will consider and make recommendations for addressing the implementation gap aiming to create the conditions for lasting and regenerative change. You can find out more about the RSA’s Design for Life mission here.

Register for this event here.

Entry deadline extended – 18 September 

We have extended the deadline for making a nomination to our annual Care Home Awards to 9:00 am on Monday 18 September 2023.

Nominations need to be completed by this time and date. If you haven’t already done so, please take a look at the guidelines and categories to help us celebrate and acknowledge the exceptional skills and commitment of those working in the care home sector across Scotland.

There are 13 award categories covering organisations, staff and residents.

Please ensure you read the guidelines before completing your nomination, any submissions that do not follow the guidelines may not be accepted by the judges.

Judging of the awards will be in September and the Awards Ceremony will be held on Friday 17 November at the Hilton Hotel, Glasgow.

Find out more and enter the awards here

Social Care and the Scottish Human Rights Bill – Consultation event
Zoom, 3-5pm, 31^st August 2023

Join us online to discuss social care and the proposed Scottish Human Rights Bill.

The Scottish Government has published a Scottish Human Rights Bill consultation. This is an ambitious step for human rights in Scotland because the Bill will embed (“incorporate”) rights into Scots law.  If done well, this could improve rights-based decision making across the country and make it easier for people to name and claim their rights.  The purpose of the Scottish Government’s consultation is to share their proposals for the Bill and for people to tell them what they think. This will then inform how they develop the Bill.

The Scottish Government’s proposal is to incorporate four United Nations treaties into Scots law, recognise and include the right to a healthy environment, and make sure the rights set out in the Bill are available to everyone equally. The four treaties are:

• The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
• The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
• The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
• The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

This online event will have a particular focus on social care. Social care engages many different human rights standards and principles, like:

• The rights to independent living, health, work and education.
• Choice, control and participation in decision-making.
• Information and communication.
• Accountability
• Equality and non-discrimination.
• Budgeting
• Dignity and respect.

Event participants will learn more about the Scottish Government’s proposals for the Bill, discuss why it matters and how it relates to social care, and how you might want to respond to the Scottish Government consultation.

Join us online (Zoom) from 3pm to 5pm on Thursday 31 August 2023.

Please register for the event by following this link. The deadline for registration is Wednesday 23 August 2023. If you have any problems, email [email protected].

This event is organised in partnership by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE), the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS), Disability Equality Scotland, Scottish Care, and the National Carer Organisations (Carers Scotland, Carers Trust Scotland, Coalition of Carers in Scotland, MECOPP, Shared Care Scotland, and the Scottish Young Carers Service Alliance).

The 2023 Global Ageing Network conference is coming to Glasgow on 7-8 September and the registration deadline is only 4 weeks away! This conference is a great opportunity to connect with other professionals in the social care sector and learn about innovative initiatives from around the world.

The conference theme is “Care About Our Future: Global Symposium for Sustainable Care and Support” Keynote speakers, panellists and workshop presenters from around the world will discuss a variety of topics related to sustainable care and support, including workforce trends, technology, and policy. There will also be panel discussions and workshops to provide you with the opportunity to network with other professionals and learn about new ideas.

Tickets are still available! Members of leading organisers (Scottish Care & National Care Forum) are able to take advantage of discounted rates.

To register, please visit: https://globalageing2023.com/delegate-registration/

The registration deadline is 17 August.

In addition to the main conference, there are a number of exciting events taking place before and after, including:

• Scottish Golf Opportunity – 5 September
• International Social Care Workforce Summit – 6 September
• Scottish Ceilidh – 8 September

We hope to see you in Glasgow in September!

Scottish Care notes the announcement of a Partnership agreement between Scottish Government, local government and the NHS about accountability arrangements for the National Care Service (NCS).

As the representative body for the majority of organisations that provide the actual frontline care and support which people across Scotland use every day, what matters most to us is that the experience of services and supports are changed for the better.

The Feeley Review which had been widely welcomed recognised that the current system was not working and that change, and reform was needed, suggesting that a National Care Service be established. We cannot forget the lessons of those who shared their story and presume by making slight changes to reform that we are going to achieve the outcomes people want.

We note that local government organisations will continue to retain staff employment and their control over assets. However, Scottish Care members employ the majority of the 220,000 people who work in social care across Scotland and what matters to them is that their terms and conditions for the work they do are equitable, fair and dignified. It is also important that the systems they work in create the conditions for them to deliver meaningful care and support. It is therefore absolutely critical as we move forward with a new NCS Bill that the urgent changes to contracting and commissioning are prioritised.

We note that new governance arrangements will be introduced to ensure quality and local flexibility. It is imperative that these structures have the voice of those who provide, work and use social care and support services at their heart and not the usual suspects of local and national political leadership.

What matters most is that real change happens and that we do not fall back into old predictable ways of working which have over the years achieved so little for those who use care and support services and those who provide them.

Scottish Care and its members will continue to work constructively with the new arrangements and plans and will continue to put people before process.