The Third Sector Workforce in Scotland: a review of publications
This review outlines some of the main research publications relating to the third sector workforce in Scotland. It draws from a literature that has grown enormously over recent years, particularly since the inception in Scotland in 2005 of Sector Skills Councils, which are employer-led bodies covering the workforce development needs of all who work in private, public and third sector organisations. They include all those working across a range of sub-sectors within the third sector such as early years and childcare, healthcare, arts and culture, adult residential care, housing support, domiciliary care as well as other areas. A consultation for a new skills strategy for the third sector was undertaken between December 2008 and March 2009. This will provide the framework for an action plan for the new Third Sector Skills Body ? ?Skills ? Third Sector? which is due to come into place in England initially in 2009. In Scotland, the Scottish Government published in 2007 its Skills for Scotland: a Lifelong Skills Strategy and this has also provided the impetus for a number of research initiatives designed to arrive at a better understanding of the Scottish voluntary sector workforce.
