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skills for care

Skills for Care is the employer led authority on the training standards and development needs of nearly one million social care staff in England providing over £25 million in funding to support improved training and qualifications for managers and staff.

They work with social care employers and training providers both regionally and nationally to establish the necessary standards and qualifications that equip social care workers with the skills needed to deliver an improved standard of care.

For more information please visit the Skills for Care website here

For your regional Skills for Care team please visit the above website and click on the Eastern Region.

Skills for Care e-news

Please click on the link below for the latest edition of the Skills for Care e-news publication

Click here for more information


 

FREE Employer Engagement Events across the Eastern region

We are running a series of free events across the region, in order for employers to find out more about the work we do, and specifically about:

The QCF (Qualifications and Credit Framework) – how qualifications are changing and how it affects employers
Apprenticeships – growing our own and finding our future workforce
The NMDS-SC (National Minimum Data Set): how to update your information in order to meet the criteria for funding of staff training through Skills for Care’s TSI funding
Recruitment and Retention initiatives
 

For further details, dates, and how to book a place at one of these events, please click here or visit: http://eastern.skillsforcare.org.uk/news/news.aspx