Care Certificate
New Care Certificate support resources now available
The ‘Tailoring the Care Certificate’ resources have been developed to support workers achieve the minimum standards of the Care Certificate in job roles where more specialist skills are needed. The resources cover:
- Lone workers
- Services for people living with dementia
- Services for people with a learning disability
- Services for people with mental health conditions
- Supporting autistic people
- Supporting people at the end of their life
Find out more
The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours expected of specific job roles in the health and social care sectors. It's made up of the 15 minimum standards that should be covered if you are 'new to care' and should form part of a robust induction programme.
The Care Certificate was developed jointly by Skills for Care, Health Education England and Skills for Health.
The standards
- Understand your role
- Your personal development
- Duty of care
- Equality and diversity
- Work in a person centred way
- Communication
- Privacy and dignity
- Fluids and nutrition
- Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities
- Safeguarding adults
- Safeguarding children
- Basic life support
- Health and safety
- Handling information
- Infection prevention and control
You can find tailored support resources for the Care Certificate here
Important message
We've been made aware of a number of training providers (including e-learning providers) making claims about their products in relation to the Care Certificate.
We'd like to reassure you that such claims are false and have issued a full statement that we advise everyone reads before putting their staff through the Care Certificate.
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