Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 8 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport on 21 November 2024, how it plans to progress plans for a National Social Work Agency, and what timetable for parliamentary scrutiny it plans to propose.
Plans for a National Social Work Agency and Proposed Timetable
We remain committed to the establishment of a National Social Work Agency by the end of the parliamentary term, 2025–26 in order to address the issues affecting this important workforce. A final decision has yet to be taken on the form and structure of the agency, following which we can update Parliament.
Our partners and stakeholders, including COSLA, and the social work workforce are supportive of establishing a National Social Work Agency and are engaged in its development.