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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.

Recruitment and retention secrets of success report

This research report explores what recruitment and retention activities work well for adult social care employers with a turnover of less than 10%. It also includes a section about what recruitment activities work well for individual employers.

A celebration of innovation among the challenges of the pandemic

Sacha Wheatley, Registered Manager of Greenwich Shared Lives, and a Skills for Care Moving Up alumni, discusses how her team innovated during the pandemic and the achievements that were made among the most difficult times.

The Care Certificate FAQ's - General Public

Care Cert FAQs

Retaining the workforce: valued pay and conditions

In one of our newly-published Practical approaches toolkits, Be Caring shares how their block pay model and other conditions support retention of staff.

Practical approach: Reaching the future workforce

Learn how combining central and satellite employment Hubs engages new carers and connects them to adult social care employers.

Neighbourhood health services

The role of adult social care in the Neighbourhood Health Service in England.

Praising our unsung heroes

Nicki Bones is CEO of SweetTree, a CQC rated outstanding domiciliary care company, offering services across London. Here she talks about her team as unsung heroes who are determined to continue doing their job despite the risks of working with people who have or have suspected Covid-19.

Research into social care workers undertaking healthcare interventions

A 2022 research report commissioned by Skills for Care exploring current practice in social care workers undertaking delegated healthcare tasks.

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.