{"id":654432,"date":"2025-12-25T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654432\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T17:18:47","slug":"highland-chief-social-work-officer-elected-as-convenor-of-social-work-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/654432\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland Chief Social Work Officer elected as Convenor of Social Work Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Picture1_7.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Fiona Duncan\"\/><br \/>\n                    Fiona Duncan, Highland Council Chief Social Work Officer and Convenor of Social Work Scotland<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Duncan has been elected as Convenor of Social Work Scotland, the professional leadership body for the social work and social care professions.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulating her on her appointment, Cllr David Fraser, Chair of Highland Council\u2019s Health Social Care and Wellbeing Committee said: \u201cI am absolutely delighted to learn of Fiona\u2019s appointment as Chair of Social Work Scotland. She will be a tremendous advocate not just for the profession but also for Highland during her year of tenure on the Social Work Scotland Board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHighland Council supports Social Work Scotland by showing our commitment to the values of social work and sponsoring the organisation to support the Social Work profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Duncan, Highland Council\u2019s Chief Social Work Officer and Chief Officer Health and Social Care said: \u201cI am incredibly honoured to have been elected Convenor of Social Work Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhilst social work is experiencing significant issues in relation to workforce and resource pressures nation-wide, 2026 will see exciting and significant opportunities through the introduction of the National Social Work Agency and the Scottish Social Work Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI look forward to working with colleagues across Scotland to ensure social work continues to make a positive difference in people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Social Work Scotland is a membership organisation which represents social workers and other professionals who lead and support social work across all sectors.<\/p>\n<p>For further details on Social Work Scotland visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/socialworkscotland.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">organisation\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>23 Dec 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiona Duncan, Highland Council Chief Social Work Officer and Convenor of Social Work Scotland Fiona Duncan has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,154893,12,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-654432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-highland","tag-news","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115781355515970260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}