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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.

If you’d be interested in writing a blog or being interviewed for one our pieces please email alexander.haswell@skillsforcare.org.uk

 


The latest size and structure report offers much needed insight at a time of turbulence

04 Aug 2020 Shereen Hussein

Professor Shereen Hussein, Professor of Care and Health and Policy Evaluation at the University of Kent talks about the importance of the findings in …read more

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04 Aug 2020 Shereen Hussein

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Professor Shereen Hussein, Professor of Care and Health and Policy Evaluation at the University of Kent talks about the importance of the findings in …read more

ASC-WDS

Three decades in the frontline

31 Jul 2020 Pam Packham

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the central role registered managers have played in tackling the spread of the virus. Pam Packham has just celebr…read more

31 Jul 2020 Pam Packham

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the central role registered managers have played in tackling the spread of the virus. Pam Packham has just celebr…read more

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Using ASC-WDS data to inform the COVID-19 debate

07 Jul 2020 Dave Griffiths

Programme Head for Analysis Dave Griffiths, looks at how our Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set has helped shape thinking during the pandemic and th…read more

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07 Jul 2020 Dave Griffiths

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Programme Head for Analysis Dave Griffiths, looks at how our Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set has helped shape thinking during the pandemic and th…read more

ASC-WDS

New survey launched for BAME care workers

01 Jul 2020 Symone Stuart

Skills for Care is launching a survey, and a series of webinar and peer coaching, to find out more about the experiences of social care workers from a…read more

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01 Jul 2020 Symone Stuart

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Skills for Care is launching a survey, and a series of webinar and peer coaching, to find out more about the experiences of social care workers from a…read more

Culture and diversity

It's OK to be different...if it works

30 Jun 2020 Jim Thomas

In the second of his blogs imagining what adult social care will look like post virus our Head of Workforce Innovation Jim Thomas imagines a new unive…read more

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30 Jun 2020 Jim Thomas

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In the second of his blogs imagining what adult social care will look like post virus our Head of Workforce Innovation Jim Thomas imagines a new unive…read more

Leadership

Don't fly too close to the sun

23 Jun 2020 Jim Thomas

In the first of a series of blogs where Skills for Care start to think about what post virus adult social care will look like our Head of Workforce In…read more

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23 Jun 2020 Jim Thomas

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In the first of a series of blogs where Skills for Care start to think about what post virus adult social care will look like our Head of Workforce In…read more

Leadership

Challenges empower us to achieve

17 Jun 2020 Samuel Clements

Samuel Clements is a director and Nominated Individual for a domiciliary care agency, Salus Care, based in Leicestershire. He began his career at the …read more

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17 Jun 2020 Samuel Clements

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Samuel Clements is a director and Nominated Individual for a domiciliary care agency, Salus Care, based in Leicestershire. He began his career at the …read more

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Making work experience work

11 Jun 2020 Tracey Nicolson

Tracey Nicholson, Project Manager at Skills for Care, talks about how adult social care employers can make work experience work for them. read more

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11 Jun 2020 Tracey Nicolson

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Tracey Nicholson, Project Manager at Skills for Care, talks about how adult social care employers can make work experience work for them. read more

Thank you to registered managers

10 Jun 2020 Bill Mumford

Bill Mumford is a Skills for Care Fellow with 40 years’ experience in the health and social care sector, starting as a live-in care assistant at Barna…read more

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10 Jun 2020 Bill Mumford

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Bill Mumford is a Skills for Care Fellow with 40 years’ experience in the health and social care sector, starting as a live-in care assistant at Barna…read more

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Choosing to care

02 Jun 2020 Pakkirisamy Bhoopalan Natarajan

Chosen Care Group offer home care across 22 London boroughs and have offered over one million hours of care and support to more than 250 clients. One …read more

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02 Jun 2020 Pakkirisamy Bhoopalan Natarajan

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Chosen Care Group offer home care across 22 London boroughs and have offered over one million hours of care and support to more than 250 clients. One …read more

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