Skills for Care
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Skills for Care is the strategic body for workforce development in adult social care in England
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Skills for Care is an independent registered charity working with 35,000 adult social care employers to set the standards and qualifications to equip 1.5 million social care workers with the skills and knowledge needed to deliver high quality care to people who use services and carers.
Skills for Care's vision
- Put employers in the driving seat on social care workforce issues
- Create a trained and qualified workforce providing high quality care
- Provide an expert voice to the social care workforce
Skills for Care work with employers to gather data on the social care workforce through the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) that provides robust evidence to analyse emerging issues for the social care sector. NMDS-SC and other research projects are designed to create a well trained workforce capable of meeting the challenges the social care sector faces.
help develop new ways of working and delivering services
The New Types of Working and Workforce Development Strategy helps employers and their staff be innovative and flexible to capitalise on future business development opportunities.
create a flexible qualifications framework that underpins workforce development, learning and training for 1.5 million social care workers
Skills for Care have been a key partner in developing the new Qualifications and Credit Framework
(QCF) as a simpler, more flexible way of recognising and rewarding skills and knowledge in the social care workforce. Once the QCF is introduced in 2010 the common induction standards and knowledge sets will be linked into the framework.
help improve the image and status of the social care workforce
The Accolades awards reward social care employers who deliver outstanding services. Care Ambassadors visit schools, colleges and job fairs to promote social care as a positive career choice. The 'I Care...' materials and the career pathway e-tool help employers promote social care as a long-term career.
are the employer voice on emerging Government policy
Skills for Care makes sure the voice of social care employers and their workers is heard at the Department of Health (United Kingdom)
and at Westminster
. Skills for Care work closely with Government departments, MPs
and Peers to make sure that the development needs of the adult social care workforce is reflected in new policy initiatives.
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Skills for Care's regional committees act as brokers for funding for workforce development and training.
Regional committees also develop partnerships with employers to help them to get the best out of resources available for social care workforce development in their region. They can help employers to plan their workforce development requirements.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Skills for Care is an independent registered charity working with 35,000 adult social care employers to set the standards and qualifications to equip 1.5 million social care workers with the skills and knowledge needed to deliver high quality care to people who use services and carers.
Skills for Care's vision
- Put employers in the driving seat on social care workforce issues
- Create a trained and qualified workforce providing high quality care
- Provide an expert voice to the social care workforce
Skills for Care's role
provide robust data about the social care workforceSkills for Care work with employers to gather data on the social care workforce through the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) that provides robust evidence to analyse emerging issues for the social care sector. NMDS-SC and other research projects are designed to create a well trained workforce capable of meeting the challenges the social care sector faces.
help develop new ways of working and delivering services
The New Types of Working and Workforce Development Strategy helps employers and their staff be innovative and flexible to capitalise on future business development opportunities.
create a flexible qualifications framework that underpins workforce development, learning and training for 1.5 million social care workers
Skills for Care have been a key partner in developing the new Qualifications and Credit Framework
Qualifications and Credit Framework
The Qualifications and Credit Framework is the national credit transfer system for education qualification in England, Education in Northern Ireland and Wales. The QCF replaces the National Qualifications Framework which closed for accreditations at the end of 2010...
(QCF) as a simpler, more flexible way of recognising and rewarding skills and knowledge in the social care workforce. Once the QCF is introduced in 2010 the common induction standards and knowledge sets will be linked into the framework.
help improve the image and status of the social care workforce
The Accolades awards reward social care employers who deliver outstanding services. Care Ambassadors visit schools, colleges and job fairs to promote social care as a positive career choice. The 'I Care...' materials and the career pathway e-tool help employers promote social care as a long-term career.
are the employer voice on emerging Government policy
Skills for Care makes sure the voice of social care employers and their workers is heard at the Department of Health (United Kingdom)
Department of Health (United Kingdom)
The Department of Health is a department of the United Kingdom government with responsibility for government policy for health and social care matters and for the National Health Service in England along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish,...
and at Westminster
Westminster
Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...
. Skills for Care work closely with Government departments, MPs
MPS
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and Peers to make sure that the development needs of the adult social care workforce is reflected in new policy initiatives.
Skills for Care's Regional Committees
Skills for Care's nine supporting regional committees contribute to the improvement of social care through workforce development activities in each region of EnglandEngland
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Skills for Care's regional committees act as brokers for funding for workforce development and training.
Regional committees also develop partnerships with employers to help them to get the best out of resources available for social care workforce development in their region. They can help employers to plan their workforce development requirements.
External links
- Skills for Care http://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/
- Skills for Care & Development http://www.skillsforcareanddevelopment.org.uk/
- Children's Workforce Development CouncilChildren's Workforce Development CouncilThe Children's Workforce Development Council is a UK non-departmental public body set up in 2005 to support the implementation of the government's "Every Child Matters" strategy. It is part of Skills for Care and Development, the Sector Skills Council for social care, children and young people's...
http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/ - CSCI http://www.csci.org.uk/
- GSCC http://www.gscc.org.uk/