National Care at Home and Housing Support Conference Cheryl Campbell Registration Manager Roxanne Campbell Registration Team Leader

About the Register Registration commenced in April 2003 There are 23 different parts of the Register There are currently around 110,000 registrants across the different parts

Our Register Parts Social Workers – 10,769 Registrants Social Work Students - 1,872 Registrants All Residential Child Care Workers – 7,488 Registrants All Residential School Care Accommodation Workers - 454 All workers in Care Home Services for Adults – 41,149 Registrants All workers in Day Care of Children Services – 34,634 Registrants Managers of Adult Day Care Services – 388 Registrants Manager/Supervisor in Housing Support Services – 5,107 Registrants Manager/Supervisor in Care at Home Services – 4,832 Registrants

Qualification Conditions – Managers and Supervisors Managers in Care at Home Services: 45% Registered with a qualification condition. Managers in Housing Support Services: 40% Registered with a qualification condition Supervisors in Care at Home Services: 60% Registered with a qualification condition Supervisors in Housing Support Services: 58% Registered with a qualification condition Support workers in Care at Home Services: 59% Registered with a qualification condition Support workers in Housing Support Services: 53% Registered with a qualification condition

Qualification Conditions – Managers and Supervisors cont. Qualification Condition End Dates 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Grand Total Managers in Housing Support Services 111 154 8 47 187 50 557 Managers of Care at Home Services 105 157 7 42 189 56 556 Supervisors in a Care at Home Service 4 32 301 523 1016 264 2140 Supervisors in Housing Support Services 5 317 516 1001 256 2127 225 375 633 1128 2393 626 5380

Registration of Support Workers in Care at Home and Housing Support Services 11,828– unique individuals registered on these Register parts since October 2017 4,703– individual applications for Registration received by the SSSC and currently being processed. More than half of these have until 2020 to be registered 7,100 – applications started on MySSSC, but not yet submitted to the SSSC.

Qualification Conditions – Support Workers All workers who do not hold a suitable, accepted qualification upon registration must gain an accepted qualification within their first five years of registration. The benchmark Qualification for Support Workers in Care at Home and Housing Support Services are: SVQ Social Services and Healthcare at SCQF Level 6 or HNC Social Services Of the support workers who have gained registration so far around 54% are registered with a condition to gain one of the above qualifications.

What are the barriers to registration for workers? In groups take some time to consider what the barriers to registration could be for workers. Make a note of these on the flipchart provided. Discuss possible solutions to these barriers that organisations could use to support registrants. Have any of these barriers come up in your own organisation? What did the organisation do to support the worker(s)? Each table will then feed back to the rest of the room.

What are the barriers to registration for employers and organisations? In groups take some time to consider what the barriers to registration of workers could be for organisations. Make a note of these on the flipchart provided. Discuss possible solutions to these barriers that organisations could use to support the workforce. Have any of these barriers come up in your own organisation? What did the organisation do to support the registration of workers? Each table will then feed back to the rest of the room

Once registration has been obtained, what are the barriers to maintaining registration? In groups take some time to consider what the barriers to maintaining registration could be for workers and for organisations. Make a note of these on the flipchart provided. Discuss possible solutions to these barriers. Have any of these barriers come up in your own organisation? What did the organisation do to support maintaining the registration of workers? Each table will then feed back to the rest of the room.