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What do registered managers think about a professional body and workforce registration?
25 Sep 2024 Skills for Care
We caught up with our registered manager reference group to discuss their thoughts on suggestions in the Workforce Strategy around workforce registrat…read more
Workforce development
Leadership
Policy
An update on the workforce strategy for adult social care
18 Dec 2023 Oonagh Smyth and David Pearson
In October, Skills for Care announced plans to develop a workforce strategy for adult social care. Our CEO Oonagh Smyth and Sir David Pearson, who are…read more
Skills for Care
How does clinical supervision for nurses support the delegation of healthcare activities
17 Aug 2023 Grace Cook
In this blog from Grace Cook, Resilience-Based Clinical Supervision (RBCS) Programme Manager at the Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS), she shares h…read more
Integration
Learning and development
Mentoring
Nursing
What integration means for social care
25 May 2023 Oonagh Smyth
In this joint blog from Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth and Director of System and Social Partnership at NHS Employers Rebecca Smith, they discuss wh…read more
How delegating healthcare activities to my PAs has changed my life
24 May 2023 Rob Moriarty
Rob employs personal assistants (PAs) to support him. He tells us how having healthcare activities delegated to his PAs has made his life better. read more
Culture and diversity
Individual employers
How international recruitment can support the social care sector
27 Jul 2022 Jeanine Willoughby
Jeanine Willoughby and Amanda Ashworth, project managers for workforce capacity and transformation at Skills for Care, look at how recruiting from ove…read more
Recruitment
Oonagh Smyth: celebrating the social care workforce
13 Apr 2022 Oonagh Smyth
Our CEO Oonagh Smyth reflects on what we’ve learnt about people working in adult social care during the pandemic and what’s next for the sector as we …read more
Migration rule changes are welcome but are only part of the recruitment solution
07 Mar 2022 Oonagh Smyth
Our CEO Oonagh Smyth welcomes recent changes to the migration rules but says it is only part of the solution. read more
Workforce planning
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