Our activities include the Care in Scotland Recruitment and Awareness Campaign, a Front Line Staff initiative, an extended fast-track scheme, which will add 450 people to the workforce, provision of £2 million to local authorities and voluntary organisations to help meet the costs of student practice placements, an incentive scheme to encourage newly-qualified graduates to fill jobs in qualifying posts in areas of significant shortage, a new Framework for Social Work Education including the introduction of a new four-year honours degree-level qualification, the establishment of the National Workforce Group which I chair, provision of an additional £9 million specific grant over three years for training, establishment of the Scottish Social Services Council and Institutefor Excellence in Social Work Education, a Leadership Development Programme...