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Jan 21

Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set - Increased sickness rates

CEO Oonagh Smyth reflects on the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set Increased sickness rates

Date: Monday 18 January 2021

Jan 21

Skills for Care appoint Tricia Pereira as Director of Operations

Date: Monday 11 January 2021

Dec 20

Delegated healthcare tasks guides

We've produced two short guides, one for employers and managers and one for care workers, which aim to support decision making and provide information and guidance to deliver delegated healthcare tasks safely and competently.

Date: Monday 14 December 2020

Oct 20

Learning from events – new online learning module to support your response to COVID-19

Skills for Care has launched a digital learning module to support adult social care managers in carrying out holistic learning reviews following any incidents or near misses within the care setting, such as a COVID-19 outbreak.

Date: Monday 26 October 2020

Oct 20

Social care needs to fill more than 100,000 vacancies

The latest state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England report, 2020 has just been released. It shows that although there has been a slight reduction in job vacancies, the adult social care sector in England still needs to fill around 112,000 job vacancies at any given time.

Date: Wednesday 21 October 2020

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