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How the Workforce Strategy can help us attract more regulated professionals
23 Sep 2024 Professor John Unsworth
In this article, Professor John Unsworth, Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Northumbria University Newcastle, …read more
Workforce development
Learning and development
Recruitment
How the ‘Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care’ is addressing our retention challenges
04 Sep 2024 Lara Bywater
Lara Bywater, Director and Registered Manager of LDC Care, talks about how she believes the Strategy will help our sector tackle its retention challen…read more
Retention
Top tips on how to retain your care team
28 Aug 2024 Stephen Forster
We hear from Stephen Forster, Managing Director of The Care Social Network, on how to retain your care team. read more
How integrated care systems are working together on shared recruitment initiatives
22 Jul 2024 Skills for Care
Skills for Care has spoken to several ICSs since their inception to learn about what they are doing. Learn how many are working effectively together t…read more
Integration
The impact of learning and development in retaining support staff
26 Jun 2024 Aisling Duffy
In this article, we hear from Aisling Duffy, Chief Executive of Certitude Support, on how she believes learning and development is critical in enablin…read more
Improving retention as an individual employer
19 Jun 2024 Skills for Care
Hints and tips on retaining personal assistants as an inidivudal employer. read more
Individual employers
How leaders create workplace cultures that retain social care staff
10 Jun 2024 Skills for Care
We discuss how leadership impacts culture and how this can create an environment that leads to better staff retention. read more
Culture and diversity
Leadership
How recognition and reward can help you retain staff
05 Jun 2024 Skills for Care
We talk about how to recognise and reward your staff to support you in #KeepingTheRightPoeple. read more
Top tips on how to create a positive workplace culture
03 Jun 2024 Skills for Care
We share our top tips on how to create a positive workplace culture that retains staff. read more
Wellbeing
Management
Why we can’t recruit our way out of a retention crisis
07 May 2024 Oonagh Smyth
As we launch our #KeepTheRightPeople campaign, our CEO Oonagh Smyth discusses why it’s important to retain the best staff and the factors that impact …read more
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