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COVID-19: Support and guidance for the adult social care sector

COVID-19: essential training

Find guidance on essential training and how to access it.

Support for regulated professionals

Further support specifically for social workers or registered nurses.

Support for registered managers

Our Facebook group, virtual networks, webinars and advice line can support you during this time.

Support for individual employers

Guidance for people employing PAs (including PHB holders and direct payment recipients).

COVID-19 guidance from other agencies

Find key guidance from the government and other agencies in the fight against COVID-19.

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New survey launched for BAME care workers

Blog posted on Wednesday 1 July 2020

Programme Manager for Leadership and Management Symone Stuart wants us to understand how we can better support to workers from BAME backgrounds through our new survey.

It's OK to be different….if it works

Blog posted on Tuesday 30 June 2020

In the second of a series of blogs Head of Workforce Innovation Jim Thomas focusing on adult social care post virus drawing parallels with the complex diverse nature of the universe we live in.

Don't fly too close to the sun

Blog posted on Tuesday 23 June 2020

In the first of a series of blogs where Skills for Care start to think about what post virus adult social care will look like our Head of Workforce Innovation Jim Thomas imagines our sector as being like the solar system as he takes a journey through the complex challenges we all face.

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Skills for Care partners with employee referral app Care Friends

Description: Employee referral is proven to be by far the best source of high performing and long-staying care workers. The Care Friends app has been developed by Neil Eastwood, author of Saving Social Care, aims to provide an innovative solution to recruitment and retention.
Date:: Tuesday 16 June 2020

Skills for Care welcomes appointment of Rosamond Roughton as Director General of Adult Social Care

Description: Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth said: "We are pleased that the creation of this post recognises how important the efforts and sacrifices of the adult social care workforce have been during this pandemic.
Date:: Monday 15 June 2020

Skills for Care welcomes the appointment of David Pearson to Chair the National COVID-19 Social Care Support Taskforce

Description: Adult social care's 21,200 registered managers and their deputies are in line to benefit from £3 million through the Workforce Development Fund (WDF) that's specifically earmarked for the development of the skills and knowledge they need to lead high quality services.
Date:: Tuesday 9 June 2020

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