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#CelebratingSocialCare: new skills for better care

Throughout April we’re #CelebratingSocialCare and all the great work happening across the sector. We asked you to send in your good news stories and we’ll be sharing these throughout the month. Today we hear how people in social care are learning new skills to deliver better care.

Oral health

Explore our guide to oral health for adult social care: learn why mouth care matters, how to support good oral hygiene, assess oral health risks, and access tools and resources to help your workforce maintain dignity, comfort and wellbeing.

Mouthcare Matters: Practical Prevention in Daily Care

Learn more about how adult social care professionals can commission and run support, and how workers can get the skills, knowledge and insight needed to support people well.

Statutory and mandatory training guide December 2025

Statutory and mandatory training guide for adult social care employers

The Care Certificate Guidance

Contributory factors framework for medicines errors in adult social care settings

This framework supports investigating medicines errors in adult social care settings to enhance safety and learning.

Skills for Care response to Health and Social Care Select Committee’s report on Workforce: recruitment, training, and retention in Health and Social Care

Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth says this report which we gave oral and written evidence to lays bare the ongoing recruitment and retention challenges facing adult social care.

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Guidance produced by the DBS which contains advice for adult social care employers

Supporting the development of leadership skills

Skills for Care's leadership offer includes programmes, practical tools, and opportunities to make connections that will help leaders to develop their confidence and capability to move forward in their role.

The Care Certificate Framework

Care Certificate Framework Guidance