FOI Request - Training Budget Social Work
Request 101003616628
1. What was your training budget in 2023/2024 for adult social workers?
2. What training courses did you commission in 2023/2024 for adult social workers?
a) How many sessions of each course did you commission?
b) What was the price per course?
c) Who delivered each course?
d) What was the method of delivery (e.g. in-person, virtual, eLearning etc.)
3. What was your training budget in 2023/2024 for children’s social workers?
4. What training courses did you commission in 2023/2024 for children’s social workers?
a) How many sessions of each course did you commission?
b) What was the price per course?
c) Who delivered each course?
d) What was the method of delivery (e.g. in-person, virtual, eLearning etc.)
5. Do you have a Workforce Development contact for Adult Services? If so, please provide their contact details.
6. Do you have a Workforce Development contact for Children’s Services? If so, please provide their contact details.
7. Who is the Mental Capacity Act/Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (MCA/DoLS) lead at your council? If so, please provide their contact details.
8. Do you have an Approved Mental Health Practitioner (AMHP) lead? If so, please provide their contact details.
9. How many Best Interest Assessors (BIAs) do you employee?
Response 28-08-2024
1. Not held, as the budget is not separated between adult and child care. The budget is also a joint budget with social care, so there is not a specific budget for social work. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held. The joint budget between adult and children social work and social care is about 55k.
2. Mental Health Officer (MHO) award.
Please note, there may have been training commissioned from individual team budgets but this is not recorded - Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
a) not held Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
b) 5.5k for each MHO award; other information not held. Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
c) MHO award is delivered by the Robert Gordon University (RGU). Information on other courses not held Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.
d) MHO award is delivered by a combination of virtual, classroom and practice learning
3. Not held. There is not a separate budget for children's social work. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held
4. No courses were commissioned from the training budget for children's social work.
a) - d) Not applicable
5. Senior OD Adviser, socialwork.training@moray.gov.uk
6. as per question 5
7. The Mental Capacity Act is English legislation and does not apply in Scotland. DoLS apply to England but do not apply to Scotland. The lead for Adults with Incapacity Scotland Act 2000 is the Consultant Practitioner, adultprotection@moray.gov.uk
8. There are no Approved Mental Health Practitioners in Scotland. The Scottish equivalent is a Mental Health Officer (MHO). The lead MHO is as per question 7.
9. None.