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

We are the the membership body for registered managers. Find out more about the benefits.

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

Our information hub can help individual employers and those who support them.

What's new on Skills for Care

User led organisation funding open

Apply for a grant to deliver or purchase training for individual employers and PAs. Applications close Thursday 28 March 2019.

Working with families framework

Read our framework which explains what staff need to know and do, to work well with people's families.

Guide to safe staffing

This guide will help you improve your safe staffing practice, to provide high quality care and support and meet CQC regulations.

Investing in recruitment

This February, we're sharing practical advice, tips and guidance to support employers to invest in their recruitment process, so they get the right people the first time round. Keep up to date here.

Upcoming events

26Feb

Become a confident mentor in adult social care workshop

Preston
27Feb

Improving the lives of people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people who have or may offend

Taunton
27Feb

Supporting individual employers and personal assistants

Durham
28Feb

Department of Health and Social Care's national recruitment campaign for adult social care workshop

Durham

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Latest blogs and articles

Blog List

Six ways to select the right people

Article posted on Monday 18 February 2019

An article which explore six ways which helps employers to select the right people for their vacancies.

Accolades winners share what they do to recruit the right people

Article posted on Thursday 14 February 2019

Right at Home focuses on recruiting people with the right values, which has helped to increase their staff retention to over 90% for the past two years. In this blog, they tell us how they invest in a robust process to do this.

Breaking the cycle of recruiting the wrong people

Blog posted on Monday 11 February 2019

Your staff shape your organisation and the quality of care you provide, so you need to select the right people. Programme Head, Annette Baines, talks about the ways you can invest in the recruitment process and break the cycle of recruiting the wrong people.

Latest news

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Andy Tilden is interim CEO of Skills for Care

Description: Andy Tilden has been appointed Interim CEO of Skills for Care and will take over at the end of March when current CEO Sharon Allen takes up her new role.
Date:: Monday 4 February 2019

Skills for Care Accolades awards winners announced

Description: The winners of the prestigious Skills for Care Accolades, celebrating excellence in workforce development for the 1.47 million people who work in adult social care in England, have been announced.
Date:: Friday 1 February 2019

Skills for Care does not endorse The Rock Training Institute London UK

Description: Skills for Care has been made aware of instances of third party use of its logo, including the use of their logo on certificates, without its permission and by companies which are not endorsed by Skills for Care.
Date:: Wednesday 30 January 2019

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