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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.

Data shows that learning and development encourages your staff to stay

We look at what our data tells us about the positive impact which learning and development has on reducing staff turnover.

Women leaders in social care discuss their work on SC-WRES this International Women’s Day

This #GoodNewsFriday and in honour of International Women’s Day we hear from four women leaders in social care about their important and inspirational work on the SC-WRES.

Four ways you can use ASC-WDS to see how you compare to similar providers

Our Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) provides a wide range of benefits for social care providers – from managing training records to providing access to funding.

Celebrations and awards held for social care sector across the country

This month we're #CelebratingSocialCare and we're delighted to hear of lots of other celebrations and award events having taking place across the sector in recent months.

There's always something new to learn

Reflecting on the fact that we're learning all the time, Andy Tilden, Director of sector development – skills at Skills for Care, talks to us about why it's so important that the adult social care workforce have the opportunity learn and develop.

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.

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.

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.

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.