Research commissioned by the Social Work Services Strategic Forum on 'What the public think about Scottish social services and why', has been published. The research was authored by Dr Trish McCulloch (University of Dundee), Professor Stephen Webb (Glasgow Caledonian University) and David Clark.
Overall, the research findings suggest a good level of support for social services in Scotland and a reasonable level of literacy among respondents about what social services do.
A visual summary of the research findings can be found here on the Iriss website, while the report of the full findings can be found on the Social Work Scotland website.
