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How working together can improve end of life care

‘Working together-improving end of life care’ is a training pack produced in partnership with unpaid carers and practitioners across the social care, health, voluntary and private sectors to look at how working together can improve end of life care.

Social care needs to fill more than 100,000 vacancies

The adult social care sector in England still needs to fill around 112,000 job vacancies on any given day according to a new report published by Skills for Care.

Moving Up: supporting diversity in leaders and managers

We hear from Lisa Govier, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Dimensions, along with her colleagues Sharon Ngwenya, Locality Manager, and Ifeoma Igwe, Assistant Manager, about their experiences with the Moving Up programme.

The Outstanding Diversity Forum’s London Pride march 2024

We hear the story of the Outstanding Diversity Forum’s Pride march, which included teams from care organisations across the sector.

An end of year message from our CEO Oonagh Smyth

Hear what Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth has to say about the past year in the sector.

Be Caring celebrates end of year with award wins and Christmas bonus

This #GoodNewsFriday we hear from Be Caring about their recent awards wins and the Christmas bonus they’ve given staff this year.

What data tells us about how learning and development supports retention

We round-up what our latest data tells us about how learning and development supports retention.

Skills for Care responds to the announcement of funding for a workforce retention and recruitment fund

In a statement to the Commons, the Vaccines Minister Maggie Throup MP said: "Today I can confirm to the house that we are making £162.5m available of additional funding for social care through a workforce retention and recruitment fund to help local authorities work with providers to boost staffing and support existing care workers through the winter".

How Leeds City Council’s Community Health and Well-being Service is making lives better

In this article, we hear from Cath Roff MBE, Project Director: Social Care Transformation, on the launch of the ‘Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care’ and their upcoming Community Health and Well-being Service.

A look at how social care managers use Skills for Care's ASC-WDS

We spoke with managers from across the sector about how they use our Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set to help manage their teams and service.