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Offering meaningful work experience guide

Work experience can bring lots of benefits to adult social careemployers, and give people who are interested in joining oursector the opportunity to experience what it's really like. This guide has practical information and templates to support adult social care employers to provide meaningful work experience.

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.

A Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care in England

Discover England's first-ever Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care, led by Skills for Care—ensuring the sector has the right people, skills, and support to deliver high-quality care.

Workforce-Strategy-for-Adult-Social-Care-in-England-July-2025

The workforce strategy for adult social care in England. Published July 2024, refreshed July 2025.

The Care Certificate FAQ's - General Public

Care Cert FAQs

The Care Certificate Framework

Care Certificate Framework Guidance

Commissioning rapid literature review Nov 22

Commissioning good practice rapid literature review November 2022

The Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) Good Practice Guide for NHS Employers

The Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) Good Practice Guide for NHS Employers

Understanding your responsibilities as an employer of PAs - Slides

Skills for Care Individual Employer Webinar Resources

The PA workforce in social care and health

This report outlines findings from a recent study which set out to establish a picture of personal assistants (PAs) working across social care and health in England. It looks specifically at the supply and recruitment of PAs, models of PA employment and consistency between social care and health.