Social Care (Scotland) (W31)

Social care in Scotland is ever more multidisciplinary and community-focused, with an urgent need for a skilled, adaptable workforce to deliver high‑quality services. This diploma deepens your understanding of social care and social work, enabling you to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to support vulnerable adults and children effectively in diverse settings. It emphasises collaboration across professional boundaries and places service users firmly at the centre. By completing this diploma, you become better equipped to respond with confidence and compassion in a rapidly changing care environment, ready to build compassionate, person-centred practice.

Key features of the course

• Applies new ideas to real-life issues and situations that affect us all

• Helps you to develop as an independent and reflective learner

• Explores the context and processes of change and new ways of working across agency and professional boundaries

• Builds a solid foundation for further study