Footnotes

1 Figure for Adult social care only. Skills for Care and Development, ICF Consulting. The Economic Value of the Adult Social Care sector in Scotland, June 2018

2 Fair Work Convention (2016) Fair Work Framework, Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

3 Fair Work Convention’s evidence to the Scottish Affairs Committee Inquiry into the Sustainable Employment in Scotland, 24 Jan 2017.

4 Professor Patricia Findlay, FWC Co-Chair speaking at Scotland’s Inclusive Growth Conference, Glasgow University, October 2017.

5 Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS), (2017). Business Resilience Survey

6 https://vhscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Briefing-paper-8-November-2018-1.pdf

7 “Scottish Government and COSLA recognise the significant challenges within adult social care in Scotland” Scottish Government, Adult Social Care Reform discussion paper, October 2018. Available at: http://www.ccpscotland.org/resources/adult-social-care-reform-paper-scottish-goverment/

8 SCER, Fair, Innovative and Transformative Work in Social Care, February 2019. Available at: https://www.fairworkconvention.scot/news/

9 Scottish Care, Voices from the Frontline, exploring Recruitment and Retention of Social Care Support Workers, January 2016 at http://www.scottishcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Voices-from-the-Front-Line.pdf

10 Skills for Care and Development, ICF Consulting, The Economic Value of the Adult Social Care Sector – Scotland, June 2018

11 J. Rubery. Oxfam Discussion Papers. Why is Women’s Work Low-Paid? Establishing a framework for understanding the causes of low pay among professions traditionally dominated by women. Oxfam GB November 2017

12 N. Folbre (2001), The Invisible Heart: Economics and family values, New York: New Press

13 The SSSC is the regulator for the Social Care Work Force in Scotland

14 A body representing the interests of third sector and not-for-profit social care and support providers in Scotland

15 CCPS and University of Strathclyde Business School. Implementing the Scottish Living Wage in adult social care: an evaluation of the experiences of social care partners, and usefulness of Joint Guidance. November 2018

16 Self-Directed Support: You’re Choice, Your Right – 2017: Dalrymple, Macaskill, and Simmons

17 Scottish Care, (undated) The 4 Rs: the open doors of recruitment and retention in social care

18 Scottish Care ibid.

19 Cunningham, N Cowie, J., Watchman, K. & Methven, K. Understanding the training and education needs of homecare workers supporting people with dementia and cancer: A systematic review of reviews: CSO Catalytic Research report https://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/outputs/cso-funded-research/catalytic-grants-2018/

20 SCER Fair, Innovative and Transformative Work in Social Care, February 2019. Available at: https://www.fairworkconvention.scot/news/

21 Oral evidence given by Scottish Government officials to the Social Care Working Group

22 CCPS Business Resilience Survey in 2017 recorded that 95% respondents reported they were having some or a lot of difficultly with recruitment, increasing 20% since 2016

23 Timewise (2017) Caring by Design: How care providers can improve recruitment and retention by redesigning care jobs to be more compatible with carers’ non-work lives, Timewise Foundation, 2017

24 The National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

25 K Scales & J Schneider “ Social Care” in J Baldock, L Mitton, N Manning, S Vickerstaff (2012) Social Policy (fourth edition)

26 K Scales & J Schneider (2012) ibid.

27 SCER, Fair, Innovative and Transformative Work in Social Care, February 2019. Available at: https://www.fairworkconvention.scot/news/

28 All quotes throughout are drawn from research commissioned for this report and conducted by the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER). These can also be found in the accompanying research report SCER, Fair, Innovative and Transformative Work in Social Care, February 2019

29 Fair Work Convention (2016) Fair Work Framework, Edinburgh: Scottish Government. Available at: https://www.fairworkconvention.scot/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Fair-Work-Convention-Framework-PDF-Full-Version.pdf

30 CCPS and the University of Strathclyde (2018) Implementing the Living Wage in Adult Social Care: of the experiences of social care partners, and usefulness of Joint Guidance

31 SCER, Fair, Innovative and Transformative Work in Social Care, February 2019. Available at: https://www.fairworkconvention.scot/news/

32 Cunningham, I, Lindsay, C and Roy, C (2015) The View from Here: Peoples’ Experience of Working in Social Services: A Qualitative Analysis, Glasgow: IRISS

33 Cunningham et al, ibid.

34 Workers’ rights at the international level are laid out in a number of human rights conventions and treaties including the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (Articles 23 and 24, 1948) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966)

35 The Labour Force Survey 2017, ONS