Latest business updates – 17 September

Latest business updates – 17 September

Statutory Sick Pay Rebate Scheme

If you are a small or medium-sized business, you may be entitled to reclaim the costs of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) for sickness absence due to COVID-19. New deadlines added on 15 September 2021.

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Coronavirus (COVID-19): safer businesses and workplaces

Guidance for businesses and workplaces – including laboratories and research facilities – on reducing the risk of COVID-19 and supporting staff and customers. Examples in face coverings section updated on 14 September 2021.

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Stop the spike

Everyone in Scotland can get two free lateral flow tests every week. This helps to stop the spread of coronavirus by finding positive cases that could otherwise be missed. Watch this 20 second video for more detail.

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Entrepreneurial Academy

Looking for support to grow your business? If you are an ambitious entrepreneur, join this series of online workshops delivered by experts in their field. Get useful insights and techniques to help scale your business and meet like-minded peers so you can build your networks.

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Online event: Where is the value in location data? – 29 September 2021

Sign up for this event and find out how Aberdeen based DDK Positioning successfully monetised their innovative solution. This event will be of interest if your organisation is developing a solution or service using location data.

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Care Creates: The conditions for technology to work

There’s a question that sits behind almost every conversation about technology and social care. Not “which device?” or “which platform?”

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Care Creates: Economic Value

Care Creates… Economic Value: why social care is one of Scotland’s most powerful economic engines There is a simple truth:

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Care Creates: Funding Care Like It Matters Quotes 

Quotes on connection, investment and opportunity Across Scotland, social care creates connection, opportunity and possibility – but only when it

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Care Creates: Funding Manifesto Key Asks

Care Creates… Value through investment. Scottish Care is calling for a social care system that is funded like it truly

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Care Creates: Funding Care Like It Matters Stories 

Stories of investment, wellbeing and long‑term value across Scotland’s care sector. Across Scotland, social care support is creating value far

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Care Creates: Planning and Funding Care in Scotland

Planning and Funding Care in Scotland In Scotland, social care is under real pressure. Local authorities are struggling with tight