Keeping Up The Good Work - a practical guide to implementing continuing professional development in the adult social care workforce

This guide is for all employers in adult social care in England, whether local authority, private or voluntary sector. It provides clear information on the importance and practicalities of effective continuing professional development (CPD) for adult social care workers.

This publication replaces the 2006 CPD strategy, framework and employer's guide, published by Skills for Care and the Children's Workforce Development Council, and Skills for Care's 2009 CPD case studies publication. Readers familiar with those works will recognise various elements from them here in Keeping Up The Good Work, but will find this guide much shorter and easier to use.

As well as examples of successful CPD practice, Keeping Up The Good Work includes templates to help employers and workers organise their CPD. Those templates are also downloadable here as editable Word documents, so that employing organisations can adapt and reproduce them as required:

SfC CPD template 1: The worker's CPD progress record (1 page Word document)

SfC CPD template 2: The employer's CPD summary (1 page Word document)

SfC CPD template 3: Annual performance appraisal and development (PADP) guidance (2 page Word document)

Keeping Up the Good Work - a practical guide to implementing continuing professional development in the adult social care workforce (the full guide in pdf, 37 pages 954kb)

Developing yourself - a brief guide to continuing professional development (CPD) for adult social care workers (print friendly version, 2 pages 63kb)