Imagining better: the potential of Scotland’s care workforce

In late September we partnered-up with the College Development Network to host a conference on the future of Scotland’s care workforce. The conference brought together a capacity audience of just under 100 senior management and workforce leads from across Scotland’s social care services – including health and social care partnerships, independent and third sector care providers, the NHS and Scotland’s colleges.

The event explored the following key themes:

• Integration and the changing models of social care delivery
• the shared challenges and opportunities this presents to Scotland’s care workforce
• the new national care standards and how colleges and service providers can work together to ensure workforce training and skillsets meet evolving care service needs and re-design
• developing attractive career pathways in care
• a career in care in 2025 – the skillsets required for our future care workers

One of our leading speakers was Dr Donald Macaskill, Chief Executive of Scottish Care, who delivered an impassioned talk outlining the current challenges facing Scotland’s care sector and encouraging delegates to play their part in realising the full potential of Scotland’s care workforce. Here, as part of our ongoing conversation around health and social care, we feature a short video of Donald’s talk recorded and edited by our colleagues at CDN.

Imagining better: the potential of Scotland’s care workforce

Presentation slides

To compliment the video, the full presentation slides of Donald’s talk can be viewed and downloaded here –

What delegates thought of Donald’s talk

“Donald was just fantastic – I liked his confrontational ‘in your face’ style. What he said, needed to be said by someone”

“Donald MacAskill was v good – interesting and informative”

“Donald MacAskill – excellent, really exposed the realities facing the Care sector”

“Donald was passionate and inpirational in his delivery. The heart in his presentation mirrored the challenges in social care”