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End of life care

Skills for Care resources help you support someone who may be approaching the end of their life can be some of the most challenging work that any social care worker faces.

Autism

Find a breadth of advice, resources and signposting to help you with understanding and learning around autism.

Learning disability

Find our support, guidance and advice for providers with training and development in learning disability.

Foreword

Workforce Strategy Steering Group Co-chairs, Sir David Pearson and Oonagh Smyth provide an introduction into the Workforce Strategy, emphasising why such a strategy is so important, sharing the collaborative approach taken to understand the challenges faced by the sector and identify suitable recommendations for positive change.

Registered Manager Reference Group

The Skills for Care Registered Manager Reference Group informs and provides feedback on Skills for Care's work, sharing their expertise, experience, advice and enthusiasm.

Transform

Transformation of the workforce is needed if we want to ensure we can meet the needs of our ever changing population. The Workforce Strategy defines the areas of focus to make this happen.

Annual review 2021-22

Our strategy, launched in 2021, sets out Skills for Care's direction from 2021 to 2025. It informs our work and will help support adult social care to meet the needs of our families and communities now and in the future. Our annual review 2021-22 looks at some of Skills for Care's activities under our four strategic priorities.

Attract and retain

Discover the recommendations within the Workforce Strategy on what needs to be done to attract people into roles in adult social care and how to keep them once they arrive.