Continuing Professional Development

These documents -- the CPD strategy, framework and employer's guide, available here as a pack -- are approved by the boards of Skills for Care and the Children's Workforce Development Council as the CPD strategy recommended to social care employers for their workers.

Providing Effective Supervision

Skills for Care and the Children's Workforce Development Council have teamed up to produce a step-by-step workforce development tool on providing effective supervision tailor made for the job. It plugs an identified gap in the Leadership and Management Strategy for social care.

SEARCH

SEARCH is guidance for those managing employment businesses placing staff into care settings and for care providers making use of agency staff. It details the implications of the relationship between DTI requirements and regulation of the care sector, particularly under the Care Standards Act 2000, which makes a number of workforce development demands.

SME guide

Meeting social care's changing expectations is much more demanding in SMEs than in larger organisations. So Skills for Care has published a guide specifically for SMEs. It gives a checklist of what smaller social care organisations need to do to prepare their staff for the challenges and changes of personalisation and it makes the business case for doing so.

The First 12 Weeks and Beyond 

The manager's guide to using the Common Induction Standards to achieve competence, confidence and quality in adult social care.

The New Manager's Guide

A workbook with 'sign-off' space, intended for new managers themselves, and aspiring or potential new managers, which includes a blank certificate of successful completion.

The New Manager's Manager

For those who manage new managers, or are mentors to them, with added information about assessing a new manager's induction progress.

Work Placement Guide for Employers

This guide helps employers understand their role and responsibilities when hosting a work placement. The guide also includes activities and suggestions for how to support and make best use of a work placement student. It is linked to the content of the Common Induction Standards where appropriate.

Work Placement Guide for Students

This guide will help students understand the expectations of an employers and the information and support they should receive when doing a work placement in a social care setting. The guide contains activities to complete while on placement and suggestion for how to make best use of the opportunity to see what it's like to work in social care.

Work Placement Guide for Teachers

This guide specifically addresses the core skills required for working within the adult social care sector. These core skills are included in the Common Induction Standards, a framework for training and development for all care staff at the start of their employment or when they change job role.

Your Induction to Work in Adult Social Care

This is the official Skills for Care book to help social care workers who are new in their post in adult care in England to complete the Common Induction Standards.