Complete list of online publications

The following publications are free to download, please refer to the copyright notice within each document (if applicable).

If you require any of these documents in an alternative format please email marketing@skillsforcare.org.uk

• 1000 Voices consultation report (pdf 598kb)
• Adult Placement Counts - A survey of Adult Placement Schemes in England (pdf, 40pp, 618kb)
• A framework to support the involvement of people who use services, and carers, in education and training provision (pdf, 7pp, 371kb)
• An executive summary of the strategies for the participation of people who use services, and carers in Skills for Care work (pdf, 5pp, 259kb)
• Annual report on the social care workforce 2003, exec summary (pdf 12pp 318kb)
• Annual report on the social care workforce 2004, exec summary (pdf, 8pp 133kb)
• Annual report on the social care workforce 2008, exec summary (pdf, 8pp, 38kb)
• Annual Report - The State of the Adult Social Care Workforce in England 2010 - Executive Summary (pdf 132kb)
• Annual Report - The State of the Adult Social Care Workforce in England, 2010 - Full report (2.32mb)
• Apprenticeship Week newsletter 2008 (pdf 866kb)
• Apprenticeship week newsletter 2009 (pdf 800kb)
• Apprenticeship case studies (link)
• Apprenticeship resources (link)
• Attracting talent executive summary (pdf 83kb)
• Attracting talent main report (pdf 370kb)
• Benefit barriers to involvement (pdf, 969KB)
• Care Ambassador: Resource Pack (pdf, 23pp, 2.14mb)
• Care Training Code - Individuals
• Care Training Code - Learners
• Care Training Code - Providers
• Care Training Code - Purchasers
• Common Core Principles to Support Self-Care (pdf, 40pp, 1.1mb)
• Core competences and principles for end of life care (pdf, 31pp, 600kb)
• Corporate Plan 2006-2009(pdf, 16pp, 414kb)
• Corporate Plan 2010-2013 (pdf, 385kb)
• Common Induction Standards (link)
• Common Core Principles for Supporting People with Dementia (pdf 1mb)
• CPD Case Studies (pdf 596kb)
• Capturing the learning guide (link)
• Care magazine (link)
• Developing and delivering the new PQ framework: involving people who use services and carers (pdf, 32pp, 650kb)
• Development of a Foundation degree for Social Care (pdf, 46pp, 180kb)
• Domiciliary care - lone worker's safety guide (pdf)
• Employment Agency Research - Briefing on employment agency practice (pdf. 4pp, 122kb)
• Enabling Skilled Communities
• Experiences of Post-Qualifying Study in Social Work (pdf, 46pp, 365kb)
• Finders, Keepers: the adult social care sector recruitment and retention toolkit (pdf)
• I care work placement guide for employers (pdf 828kb)
• I care work placement guide for teachers (pdf 373kb)
• I care work placement guide for students (pdf 521kb)
• I care case studies (pdf 3.11mb)
• Innovation case studies (link)
• Integrated Local Area Workforce Strategies: opportunities and challenges (pdf 258kb)
• InLAWS case study - Luton  (Print friendly version)
• InLAWS case study - Norfolk (Print friendly version)
• InLAWS survey: meeting the workforce challenges (pdf 255kb)
• Keeping up the good work - Implementing CPD in the adult social care workforce (pdf 984kb)
• Knowledge sets (link)
• Knowing what works in adult social care (pdf, 1mb)
• Large scale redundancies: Skills for Care and Rochdale council - "Boots distribution centre" redundancy project (pdf. 8pp, 379kb)
• Learning Resource Network: Do the numbers add up - Summary report, October 2006 (pdf, 6pp 403kb)
• Learning Resource Network: Putting Group Learning into Practice (September 2006) - PART 1 - Pages 1-54 (pdf 785kb)
• Learning Resource Network: Putting Group Learning into Practice (September 2006) - PART 2 - Pages 55-110 (pdf 785kb)
• learning disability knowledge sets (link)
• Learning from Innovation exec summary
• Learning from Innovation
• Learning Through Work guides
• LeaRNS Briefings (link)
• LeaRNS FAQs (pdf 117kb)
• LeaRNS information leaflet (pdf 73kb)
• Leadership & management strategy (link)
• Learning to live with risk: an introduction for service providers, (pdf, 32 pages, 695kb), including key references and further reading
• Learning to live with risk: short guide (pdf, 16 pages, 304kb)
• Living with risk leaflet (pdf, 4 pages, 238kb)
• Men into social care summary - A research-based contribution to a recruitment and retention issue (pdf. 4pp, 117kb)
• Modernising the Social Care Workforce - Partnership of Social Care and Health, October 1999 (pdf, 65pp, 2.42mb)
• Modernising the Social Care Workforce - Registration & Inspection, October 1999 (pdf, 8pp, 379kb)
• Modernising the Social Care Workforce - Rehabilitation Workers: Visual Impairment (pdf, 11pp, 595kb)
• Modernising the Social Care Workforce - Residential Care (pdf, 20pp, 603kb)
• Modernising the Social Care Workforce - the first national training strategy for England, Executive Summary (pdf, 4pp 129kb)
• Modernising the Social Care Workforce - the first national training strategy for England, Full Report (pdf, 74pp, 1.19mb)
• Modernising the Social Care Workforce - Youth Offending Teams / Secure Accomodation (pdf, 8pp, 332kb)
• Managers Guide to Developing Strategic Uses of National Occupational Standards (pdf 85kb)
• Manager Induction Standards - Web edition (pdf, 10pp, 124kb)
• Modernising the social model in mental health (pdf 881kb)
• National Survey of Care Workers 2007 (pdf, 108pp, 371kb)
• New and emerging roles in assistive technology within social care: 2010 and beyond (pdf, 227kb)
• New Types of Worker Programme: Stage 1 Evaluation Report, Executive Summary & Conclusions Booklet (pdf, 8pp, 85kb)
• New Types of Worker Programme: Stage 1 Evaluation Report (pdf, 58pp 450kb)
• New Types of Worker Case study 1 - Jack Dawe (pdf 122kb)
• New Types of Worker Case study 2 - Mosaic Direct (pdf 286kb)
• New Types of Worker Health and Social Care Conference report (pdf 179kb)
• National Occupational Standards (NOS) - (link)
• NQSW resource pack (link)
• 'Only a footstep away'?: Neighbourhoods, social capital & their place in the 'big society' (pdf, 267kb)
• Overseas Workers in the UK (pdf 215kb)
• Personalisation and partnership
• Post Qualifying Employers Guide (pdf, 32pp, 1.3mb)
• Providing Effective Supervision (free to download, pdf, 44pp, 1.1mb)
• Principles of Participation leaflet (March 2006, pdf 826kb)
• Principles of Participation leaflet - Easy read version (March 2006, pdf 902kb)
• Principles of Workforce Redesign - notes and guidance (pdf 202kb)
• Principles of Workforce Redesign (pdf 218kb)
• QCF for employers (pdf 228kb)
• QCF for learners (pdf 225kb)
• QCF for training providers (pdf 221kb)
• QAPL briefing report (pdf 2.66mb)
• Recruitment & Retention strategy (pdf 774kb)

• Re-modelled care, re-modelled workers: case studies of some new worker roles in the adult social care sector (pdf 2.76mb)

• Strategy for the Participation of People Who Use Services in Skills for Care Work (pdf 10pp, 435kb)

• Sector Skills Agreement: Full Report Stage 1 (pdf, 107pp 497kb)
• Sector Skills Agreement: Full Report Stage 2 (pdf, 108pp 871kb)
• Sector Skills Agreement: Summary Report Stage 1 (pdf, 24pp 705kb)
• Sector Skills Agreement: Summary Report Stage 2 (pdf, 28pp 934kb)
• Skills for Life: Strategy (pdf, 27pp, 1.03mb)
• Strategy for the Participation of Carers in Skills for Care Work (pdf 10pp, 434kb)
• Skills for Life practical guide for employers - toolkit (pdf 532kb)
• SME recruitment & retention toolkit (link)
• Starting Out, Common Induction Standards ('refreshed' 2010) workbook
• Supporting Starters, Common Induction Standards ('refreshed' 2010) managers guide
• Sustaining social work practice learning (SuPLe) 1
• Sustaining social work practice learning (SuPLe) 2
• Sustaining social work practice learning (SuPLe) 3
• Sustaining social work practice learning (SuPLE) 4
• Taking steps - a detailed guide to workforce planning for providers of adult social care (pdf 983kb)
• The size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in England   (Print friendly version)
• Toolkit to help people employ their own personal assistants (link)

• Transforming services, transforming workforce: 'chicken or egg?'

• Transforming services, transforming workforce: 'chicken or egg?' Abridged Version

• Who we are leaflet - July 2009 (pdf 148kb)

• Workforce Development Strategy - Capable, Confident, Skilled (273kb)
• Work placement guide for students (pdf 1.77mb)
• Work placement guide for employers (pdf 1.29mb)
• Worker Qualifications and Inspection Scores (link)
• Young Apprenticeships - A Guide for Employers (pdf 486kb)
• Young Apprenticeships - A Guide for Parents and Guardians (pdf 560kb)
• Young Apprenticeships - A Guide for Pupils (pdf 441kb)