Blogs and articles

20 May 2022 Skills for Care

This #GoodNewsFriday, we look at the new online workplace mental health platform being used by Friends of the Elderly as part of its ‘Wellbeing pledge…read more

18 May 2022 Skills for Care

We know that one thing that can really support a happy and healthy workplace, is peer support. At Skills for Care, we facilitate a number of groups an…read more

16 May 2022 Jane Seal

Jane Seale of the Open University recently conducted research examining how people with a learning disability were being supported to use technologies…read more

13 May 2022 Skills for Care

This #GoodNewsFriday we're sharing the story of a social care worker who got green fingered during the pandemic to help look after the garden of someo…read more

11 May 2022 Magda Duzniak

Magda Duzniak, Clinical Lead Nurse at Pennington Court Care Home, discusses how it rewarding it feels to build a career in social care nursing. read more

29 Apr 2022 Skills for Care

While we may not have been able to celebrate birthdays in the usual way over the past two years, care workers have been pulling out the stops to make …read more

27 Apr 2022 Skills for Care

Tony Crowther of activity-led provider City Care Partnership talks to us about how the organisation adapted to continue to provide meaningful activiti…read more

26 Apr 2022 Skills for Care

The pandemic has brought many challenges for the social care sector, but there has also been innovations and achievements. We look at how providers su…read more

22 Apr 2022 Skills for Care

This month we're #CelebratingSocialCare and we're delighted to hear of lots of other celebrations and award events having taking place across the sect…read more

20 Apr 2022 Wendy Adams

Wendy Adams, Locality Manager for Yorkshire and the Humber/North East at Skills for Care shares her experience of taking on a temporary care worker ro…read more