NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is an education and training body and a national health board within NHS Scotland. They are responsible for developing and delivering healthcare education and training for the NHS, health and social care sector and other public bodies. 

Areas of Intervention

• Children and young people
• Children at risk of social exclusion
• Elderly
• People with addiction
• People with physical disabilities
• People with mental disabilities
• Mental health
• Public Health
• People who are socially vulnerable
• People in situations of difficulty or precarity
• Gender equality
• Migrants
• Poverty
• Recipients of care

Responsibilities/ Services

• Capacity building and training
• Professional training
• Training of social welfare workforce
• Research and development
• Maintaining networks for managers and social workers
• Socio-educational services for children at risk of social exclusion
• Fostering cooperation with non-governmental organisations and the promotion of social volunteering
• Research/ identifying and monitoring of social problems