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Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (SC-WRES) Improvement Programme open for registrations

The Social Care Workforce Race Equality Standard (SC-WRES) Improvement Programme has officially opened its registration process for 2024, offering an important platform for addressing race inequality within the social care sector.

How to create a workforce plan

A workforce plan is an important part of being prepared for the future. We’ve put together a simple template to help you create your own workforce plan.

Why we can’t recruit our way out of a retention crisis

As we launch our #KeepTheRightPeople campaign, our CEO Oonagh Smyth discusses why it’s important to retain the best staff and the factors that impact retention within the sector.

Using data to understand and support culture and diversity

Using data to analyse your workforce and organisation is an important part of workforce planning. We look at what data can tell you about equality, diversity, and inclusion to support a positive workplace culture.

Celebrating Black History Month in October

Skills for Care CEO Oonagh Smyth launches our Black History Month activity with a blog discussing the work Skills for Care is doing internally and externally to support culture and diversity.

Spotlight on men working in social care

In honour of International Men’s Day, we’re discussing the importance of encouraging men into a career in social care.

Quality data helps quality employers

Nadra Ahmed OBE has been Chairman of the National Care Association (NCA) since 2001 representing small and medium sized employers. In this blog she looks at the importance of having quality data for her members.

Vacancy rates in social care continue to rise, new Skills for Care data reports

Skills for Care’s latest workforce tracking data, released this week, shows that vacancy rates are continuing to rise across all settings in adult social care.

How does the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) help with workforce planning?

As we focus on the importance of workforce planning, Dave Griffiths, Skills for Care Programme Head talks about the ASC-WDS service and how it helps our sector with workforce planning.

97% of registered managers would recommend Skills for Care membership

Skills for Care is the membership body for registered managers in England. In a recent survey of our members, 97% said they’d recommend membership. Find out more about the benefits of being a member, according to registered managers.