News for individual employers and PAs

Join our delegated healthcare activities network for individual employers

17 Oct 2024

Are you an individual employer involved in delegated healthcare activities? Join our network to share your experiences and learn from others.

New individual employer and personal assistant training guide

16 Oct 2024

New guide to support individual employers (IE) and personal assistants (PA) regularly identify their training needs.

Latest individual employer and personal assistant data published

24 Apr 2024

Latest individual employer and personal assistant data published

Individual employer and personal assistant workforce survey

21 Dec 2023

Individual employer and personal assistant workforce survey

Have you completed the national survey of care workers?

13 Sep 2023

Have you completed the national survey of care workers?

Supporting individual employers recruit the right PA #RecruitRight

04 Sep 2023

Throughout September Skills for Care are shining a spotlight on how to recruit the right number of people, with the right values and behaviours, working in social care now and in the future.

Developing a #PositiveWorkplaceCulture for individual employers and PAs

07 Jul 2023

Throughout June and July Skills for Care has been shining a spotlight on developing a #PositiveWorkplaceCulture and how having a positive workplace culture enables employers to find and keep great staff who will deliver the best care and support to others.

Value Based Recruitment recordings

16 Jun 2023

The video recordings from our value based recruitment session held in March are now available.

User-led organisation funding - Open

01 Jun 2023

Organisations who are run for, and by, people with a disability or long-term health condition (disabled people’s user-led organisations) can now apply for a learning and development grant from Skills for Care. Applications must be submitted by 12:00 on Tuesday 27 June 2023.

Workforce intelligence report - Individual employer and PAs

26 May 2023

For the first time Skills for Care has published data from adult social care direct payment funded employers and personal health budget funded employers in one report.