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Professional Carers win at Northwest Family Business Awards 2024

In today’s #GoodNewsFriday, we hear from Professional Carers Wirral, a Northwest-based care organisation who recent took home the gold at the Northwest Family Business Awards 2024.

How Skills for Care can help you manage your service

Our CEO, Oonagh Smyth, discusses the launch of our latest campaign and how we can support you in managing your care service.

How the care workforce pathway is creating better social care leaders

Natalie Spinks, Programme Head - Care Workforce Pathway, at Skills for Care talks about the Care Workforce Pathway and how it’s helping us develop better leaders.

Why learning and development matters

As we launch our ‘Learning and development matters’ campaign, our CEO Oonagh Smyth reflects on why learning and development is more important than ever and how Skills for Care can support you in 2025.

How to create a workforce plan

A workforce plan is an important part of being prepared for the future. We’ve put together a simple template to help you create your own workforce plan.

97% of registered managers would recommend Skills for Care membership

Skills for Care is the membership body for registered managers in England. In a recent survey of our members, 97% said they’d recommend membership. Find out more about the benefits of being a member, according to registered managers.

Why we can’t recruit our way out of a retention crisis

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 retention within the sector.

Using data to understand and support culture and diversity

Using data to analyse your workforce and organisation is an important part of workforce planning. We look at what data can tell you about equality, diversity, and inclusion to support a positive workplace culture.

Celebrating Black History Month in October

Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth launches our Black History Month activity with a blog discussing the work Skills for Care is doing internally and externally to support culture and diversity.

Spotlight on men working in social care

In honour of International Men’s Day, we’re discussing the importance of encouraging men into a career in social care.