Blogs and articles

12 Aug 2022 Skills for Care

CEO of home care technology firm Unique IQ raised £2,000 for The Care Workers’ Charity by competing in and winning an endurance cycling competition. read more

10 Aug 2022 Claire Smout

Claire Smout, Skills for Care’s Programme Head - Sector Digital talks to us about the importance of supporting staff to confidently use digital techno…read more

08 Aug 2022 Andrew Meadows

Personal Assistant Andrew Meadows discusses the effective induction he was given for his role and his tips for onboarding new personal assistants. read more

05 Aug 2022 Skills for Care

At Redcot, Friends of the Elderly’s residential care home in Surrey, the residents have been commemorating the last few unprecedented years by burying…read more

04 Aug 2022 Skills for Care

Training provider Access Skills has received award nominations over the past two years for their support for apprentices from diverse backgrounds. The…read more

02 Aug 2022 Neil Eastwood

Neil Eastwood, CEO of Care Friends and author of ‘Saving social care’, gives his perspective on why efforts to reduce staff turnover in the first 12 w…read more

29 Jul 2022 Skills for Care

Future Directions provide live music, jokes and dancing every Friday with their ‘Fun time Friday’. read more

28 Jul 2022 Marie Lovell, Hazel Griffiths and Gary Stark

What does it mean to include people with lived experience in the recruitment process and why is it important? Marie Lovell, Hazel Griffiths and Gary S…read more

27 Jul 2022 Jeanine Willoughby

Jeanine Willoughby and Amanda Ashworth, project managers for workforce capacity and transformation at Skills for Care, look at how recruiting from ove…read more

26 Jul 2022 Oonagh Smyth CBE

Our CEO Oonagh Smyth looks at what we have been doing to make good on our pledge to ask organisers of events to ensure full and equal contribution fro…read more