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Health and Social Care Workforce Plan

Over the next five years, the Strategy commits to increasing the NHS workforce by 1,800 full-time posts – these posts are in addition to projected required workforce growth. Later this year the Scottish Government will publish, for the first time, projections of required workforce growth across health and social care, which will be reviewed annually. Other key actions include:  

  • Investing £11 million over the parliament to establish the Centre for Workforce Supply and fund recruitment campaigns to grow the health and social care workforce
  • Increasing the number of undergraduate medical school places over the course of this parliament by 500
  • Supporting up to 1,800 training places through the National Transition Training Fund for those interested in roles in adult social care
  • Recruiting 800 additional GPs by 2028
  • Further improving staff wellbeing measures
  • Increasing frontline health spending by at least 20% over this parliament and 
  • Increasing adult social care investment by at least by 25%

You can read the full plan here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/national-workforce-strategy-health-social-care/ (though think twice before pressing print – it’s 78 pages long!)

And some coverage of it here https://healthandcare.scot/default.asp?page=story&story=3040 and https://healthandcare.scot/default.asp?page=story&story=3039 

Modelling the Epidemic

The latest edition of Modelling the Epidemic is now out here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-modelling-epidemic-issue-no-94/

New Schools Guidance

New schools and ELC guidance has been published – Routine Covid Protection Measures in Schools and Routine Covid Protection Measures in early learning and childcare, school age childcare and childminding settings  

All updated guidance will come into force at the same time as the asymptomatic testing programme comes to a close – i.e. from 18th April. In some local authority areas, this will mean after schools return from their April break if they are not open on the 18th. Should there be any changes to infection rates in specific areas there will still be capacity for local public health interventions and localised measures.  This means that school and ELC guidance will be in line with measures for other workplaces.  

School Support Statistics

Some useful statistics on selected categories of school support staff have been published – it outlines numbers for pupil support assistants, home-school link workers, behaviour support staff, educational psychologists, school nurses and library staff.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-support-staff-statistics/

Ventilation Guidance

The Ventilation in Schools guidance was recently updated and you can find the updated version here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-ventilation-guidance/ 

Two May Day cabaret events.

The STUC have partnered with FairPley as part of their 125th anniversary year to offer two May Day cabaret events.

Dates and Venues

Sunday May 1st – Edinburgh Great May Day Cabaret

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-great-may-day-cabaret-tickets-290572549317
Edinburgh Southside Community Centre 7:30 pm

Featuring a fantastic line-up, the Great May Day Cabaret is a cultural celebration of both international workers’ day and the 125th anniversary of the Scottish TUC.

Performers include singer-songwriter and national treasure Rab Noakes; songwriter and producer Becci Wallace; musician and activist Calum Baird; poet and former refugee and political prisoner Ghazi Hussein; Yemeni Musician Saber Bamatraf and spoken word artist Iona Lee. Hosted by the incomparable Susan Morrison.

Supported by Edinburgh & Lothians May Day Committee, Fair Pley, STUC, Art 27, and Peace & Justice Project.

Monday May 2nd – Glasgow Great May Day Cabaret

https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/the-great-may-day-cabaret-oran-mor-tickets/11882335?pl=oranmor

Glasgow Oran Mor 7:30pm

Featuring another fantastic line-up, the Great May Day Cabaret is back to help celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Scottish TUC.
 
Celebrating international workers’ day are singer-songwriter and national treasure Rab Noakes; harmonica wizard Fraser Speirs; MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards Musician of the Year Iona Fyfe; Gaelic songstress Kathleen MacInnes; comedian Philip Differ; John Byrne Annual Award winner Victoria McNulty; BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2021 Michael Biggins; and the force of nature that is Rosa Moxham.  Compered by the second-best poet to come out of Ayrshire Jim Monaghan and with special guests David Hayman and Roz Foyer STUC General Secretary.
 
Supported by UNITE and STUC.