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Entering the awards gives you the chance to recognise the great work you do and share best practice.

Download our resources on the Care Certificate, the standards that should be covered as part of induction.

Our updated guide is ideal for providers wanting to achieve or sustain a good or outstanding CQC rating.

Think Care Careers has everything you need to know about working in social care and the roles available.

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Improving health and wellbeing this summer

Find out how we can help you improve the health and wellbeing of people who live and work in your service. Follow the campaign using #happyworkplace.

Culture for care toolkit

We've updated our online toolkit with guidance and activities to help you develop a positive workplace culture in your service.

Ongoing learning and development

Figuring out when workers should refresh their knowledge and skills can be a challenge and that's why we've produced a new learning and development guide.

Size and structure of adult social care sector and workforce report

This report provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in England.

Upcoming events

21Aug

Skills for Care roadshow

Barnsley
22Aug

Skills for Care roadshow

Hull
23Aug

Getting Started with values and behaviours-based recruitment and retention

Worcester
05Sep

The Care Certificate - helping you to assess with confidence

Telford

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Gardening activities support wellbeing in social care

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Description: Meaningful activities and getting outdoors is a great way to improve health and wellbeing. Read how one care provider's gardening projects bring lots of benefits for people who use their service.

Making activity count

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Description: Tracey Nicholson, Project Manager for Standards, Learning, Qualifications and Apprenticeships, tells us why "Making activity count" is her favourite project to date.

We already feel like winners

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Description: Kim Corsinie, Head of Resourcing at Dimensions shares how important it is for us all to take a step back, reflect and be recognised for the things we do on a daily basis in social care. Dimensions were a finalist for the 'best recruitment initiative' in the 2018 Accolades Awards.

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We've launched our updated 'Culture for care' toolkit

Description: A positive workplace culture is a vital part of any well-led service and fundamental to delivering high quality care and support. Our toolkit has guidance and activities to help you develop a positive culture in your workplace.
Date:: Monday 6 August 2018

Making a happy and healthy workplace – five tips to help you

Description: A happy and healthy workforce perform better and are more likely to stay. This article shares five ways we can help you to improve staff health and wellbeing to make yours a happy and healthy workforce.
Date:: Wednesday 1 August 2018

Recognising great service management in social care

Description: Throughout this month's #ManagingYourService campaign we've reflected on the common traits of a great adult social care service; having a good workforce plan, enough of the right staff and good people management. This article shares seven traits from last year's winning entries from the 'best employer' category that makes them stand out.
Date:: Friday 27 July 2018

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Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce.