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New mapping tool supports better insight into regional and national mental health workforce

14 Jun 2023

The Association of Mental Health Providers (The Association) has launched a national picture of the mental health workforce, including data from Skills for Care.

Skills for Care is supporting social care teams with developing a positive workplace culture

05 Jun 2023

Skills for Care, the strategic workforce development and planning body for social care in England, is supporting social care teams to develop a positive workplace culture.

Changes to the ASC-WDS homepage to improve data quality

31 May 2023

We’ve made some changes to the ASC-WDS homepage to prompt users to update their most important data more often. Having better data will allow us to produce more accurate and frequent insights about the workforce.

Guiding principles developed to support person-centred delegation of healthcare activities to care workers

25 May 2023

Skills for Care, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and sector partners have co-developed voluntary guiding principles to support person-centred, safe and effective delegation of healthcare activities to care workers, including personal assistants.

Response to the Government’s announcement on digital transformation of adult social care

18 May 2023

The Government has published new guidance to support digital transformation of social care. Skills for Care Director of Digital Transformation, Nina Blackett responds.

Skills for Care is supporting social care teams with #UnderstandingIntegration

02 May 2023

Skills for Care, the strategic workforce development and planning body for social care in England, is supporting adult social care teams with understanding integration.

Free tickets for The Coronation Procession being offered to social care workers

18 Apr 2023

Skills for Care is delighted to be supporting the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in offering a limited number of free tickets for social care workers to attend a viewing grandstand for The Coronation Procession.

Skills for Care's response to Hewitt Review

05 Apr 2023

Skills for care responds to the Hewitt Review.

Skills for Care’s response to Government setting out next steps to support people who receive social care

04 Apr 2023

Skills for Care responds to Government's next steps to put People at the Heart of Care.

Skills for Care is #CelebratingSocialCare this April

03 Apr 2023

Skills for Care is #CelebratingSocialCare this April and is encouraging all social care organisations and people working in social care to join in.