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Community, trust and representation: recruitment in Shared Lives

Carly Riley, Strategic carer recruitment communications manager and Sanah Sheikh, Strategic Advice Consultant at Shared Lives Plus share their insights on how to recruit Shared Lives carers from minoritised ethnic and cultural communities.

Knowing the neighbourhood: local knowledge, personalised support

In one of our newly-published Practical Approaches Toolkits, Be Caring shares their neighbourhood approach. We take a look at what this means.

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.

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.

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.

Social care worker gets green fingered to help someone they support during the pandemic

This #GoodNewsFriday we're sharing the story of a social care worker who got green fingered during the pandemic to help look after the garden of someone she supports.

Skills for Care Board member awarded OBE for services to care

This #GoodNewsFriday we’re saying a big well done to our Board member Beverley Tarka, who was recently awarded an OBE for services to adult social care and unpaid carers.

Professional Carers share their experience on the Valuable People Programme

We hear from Professional Carers, led by Gary Nagle, who joined Skills for Care's Valuable People Programme to tackle staffing challenges during COVID-19.

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.

#CelebratingSocialCare: diversity and dedication in care

Throughout April we’re #CelebratingSocialCare and all the great work happening across the sector. Today we have two brilliant and positive stories from a diverse workplace and an inspirational carer.