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Take a look at through our blogs and articles where you'll find top tips, insights from others working in the sector, and round-ups of our key resources.
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How to identify learning needs in your team to support staff retention
11 Nov 2021 Skills for Care
We know that providing learning and development opportunities is a key component in retaining your staff. Providing learning and development motivates…read more
Retention
Workforce development
Leadership
Five learning and development resources to support retention
09 Nov 2021 Skills for Care
Supporting learning and development opportunities for your team can play a vital role in helping with staff retention. read more
Social care leaders share how our 'Digital learning for managers' modules can support leadership and retention
02 Nov 2021 Skills for Care
Skills for Care’s ‘Digital learning for managers’ modules have been designed to develop new and aspiring social care managers. Find out more about how…read more
Interview: my career in social care and the fight for diversity
29 Oct 2021 Carol Burt
Carol Burt, Director of the Paul Clarke (Staffordshire) Community Interest Company and board member of the Sickle Cell Society spoke with Skills for C…read more
Culture and diversity
How to support retention of your registered managers
28 Oct 2021 Skills for Care
Registered managers play a key role within social care organisations. But, the pandemic has brought new and unique challenges to the sector, so provid…read more
Wellbeing
How Skills for Care's Moving Up Programme helped me to move up
27 Oct 2021 Karl Livingston
Karl Livingston, Development Manager – Black, Asian and Multi-Ethnic Groups, at London Borough of Lambeth, reflects on how Skills for Care’s Moving Up…read more
How to retain social care staff long-term: registered manager tips
26 Oct 2021 Karen Pogson
Karen Pogson, Registered Manager and Director of Active Social Care, member of the Skills for Care Registered Manager Reference Group, and Chair of Ki…read more
Black History Month: sharing my lived experience of working in social care
22 Oct 2021 Steven Onasanya
Steven Onasanya, an assessor at Lambeth Council Adult Social Care, shares his experience of working in social care with us and discusses issues of cul…read more
How to introduce digital skills without causing a systems overdrive
20 Oct 2021 Dianne Buddery
In the fast-paced and challenging world of social care it’s not always easy to introduce new technology skills to staff. Skills for Care’s Digital Pr…read more
Digital
Using the Care Friends app to support better recruitment and retention
19 Oct 2021 Skills for Care
The Care Friends app, launched by recruitment thought-leader Neil Eastwood in partnership with Skills for Care, provides an innovative solution for so…read more
Recruitment
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