Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS)

The voice of not-for-profit social care providers in Scotland.

CCPS is the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland.
Our mission is to identify, represent, promote and safeguard the interests of third sector and not-for-profit social care and support providers in Scotland, so that they can maximise the impact they have on meeting social need.

CCPS exists to:

- Champion quality care and support provided by the third sector
- Challenge policy and practice that inhibits or undermines the sector’s ability to provide quality care and support
- Prepare providers for future challenges and opportunities
- Support providers to understand, negotiate and influence the complex policy and practice environment in which they operate.

Membership

CCPS membership comprises over 80 of the most substantial care and support providers in Scotland’s third sector, providing high quality support in the areas of community care for adults with disabilities and for older people, youth and criminal justice, addictions, homelessness, and children’s services and family support.

The combined membership of CCPS:

- Supports over 220,000 people and their families
- Managed a total annual income in 2020-21 of £1.4 billion, of which an average of 70% per organisation relates to publicly funded service provision.
- Employs approximately 40,000 staff
- Mobilises the support of approximately 5,000 volunteers in providing services
- Works in all 32 of Scotland’s council areas, with many members also providing services elsewhere in the UK and internationally

CCPS members provide support for a wide range of people with diverse needs, including older people; children, young people and families; disabled people; people with learning disabilities, mental health problems, physical dementia, sensory impairment, complex disabilities, acquired brain or spinal injury, epilepsy, and drug and alcohol problems; people with convictions; and survivors of domestic violence.

Our mission is to identify, represent, promote and safeguard the interests of third sector and not-for-profit social care and support providers in Scotland

CCPS members provide a variety of high quality, personalised models of support, including supported living, care at home, housing support, supported accommodation, care home services, day opportunities, supported training and employment, short breaks, outreach, information and advice, leisure activities, advocacy, counselling, befriending, support groups, therapeutic services and support for family carers.

All the members of CCPS are non-profit distributing organisations, accountable to independent boards of trustees who offer their individual time and expertise purely on a voluntary basis. In addition, the majority of members recruit volunteers to assist in administration or service delivery. Many members are actively involved in policy development and campaigning, with more than a third employing policy staff at a senior level.