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Chief Executive, Skills for Care
Email oonagh.smyth@skillsforcare.org.uk
Oonagh Smyth is CEO of Skills for Care. For seven years she was Executive Director of Strategy and Influence at Mencap leading a directorate of around 500 people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Oonagh has held roles at the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action and the Northern Ireland Equality Commission, senior roles in Westminster Equalities Partnership and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. She is a former Co-Chair of the Care and Support Alliance, which is a cross-sector alliance of 80 social care organisations influencing at the highest government levels.
Migration rule changes are welcome but are only part of the recruitment solution
07 Mar 2022
Our CEO Oonagh Smyth welcomes recent changes to the migration rules but says it is only part of the solution. read more
Recruitment
Workforce planning
Policy
Our CEO Oonagh Smyth reflects on the latest vacancy rates across adult social care and what we're doing to help employers recruit and retain staff.
19 Jan 2022
One of the things we use the data employers supply to our Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) for is to track monthly trends across the sec…read more
Retention
Skills for Care
An end of year message from our CEO Oonagh Smyth
22 Dec 2021
Hear what Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth has to say about the past year in the sector. read more
ASC-WDS
Leadership
Wellbeing
A thank you from our CEO to all employers who contribute to ASC-WDS
14 Oct 2021
Our CEO Oonagh Smyth extends her thank you to all our ASC-WDS users who contribute vital sector insights which help to shape policies and decision mak…read more
Celebrating Black History Month in October
01 Oct 2021
Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth launches our Black History Month activity with a blog discussing the work Skills for Care is doing internally and ext…read more
Culture and diversity
Making our new three year strategy come to life
05 Aug 2021
Yesterday we launched our new three year strategy and here our CEO Oonagh Smyth considers how we can bring it to life as the sector enters a period of…read more
Our new strategy is a milestone for Skills for Care
04 Aug 2021
As Skills for Care launches a new three-year strategy our CEO Oonagh Smyth looks at what it means for our organisation and the wider adult social care…read more
Our pledge supporting full and equal contribution at events from people who draw on social care
22 Feb 2021
Our CEO Oonagh Smyth pledges that when speaking at a public event she will ask organisers to ensure full and equal contribution from people who draw o…read more
Coaching works
04 Jan 2021
Our CEO Oonagh Smyth reflects on the benefits of coaching and shares insights from her own experience on the impact the coaching can have. read more
Workforce development
Thank you for everything you have done
07 Dec 2020
Our CEO Oonagh Smyth reflects on a challenging year and expresses thanks to everyone working in adult social care. read more