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Data shows that learning and development encourages your staff to stay

We look at what our data tells us about the positive impact which learning and development has on reducing staff turnover.

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Social care needs to fill more than 100,000 vacancies

The adult social care sector in England still needs to fill around 112,000 job vacancies on any given day according to a new report published by Skills for Care.

Women leaders in social care discuss their work on SC-WRES this International Women’s Day

This #GoodNewsFriday and in honour of International Women’s Day we hear from four women leaders in social care about their important and inspirational work on the SC-WRES.

Four ways you can use ASC-WDS to see how you compare to similar providers

Our Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) provides a wide range of benefits for social care providers – from managing training records to providing access to funding.

Celebrations and awards held for social care sector across the country

This month we're #CelebratingSocialCare and we're delighted to hear of lots of other celebrations and award events having taking place across the sector in recent months.

How working together can improve end of life care

‘Working together-improving end of life care’ is a training pack produced in partnership with unpaid carers and practitioners across the social care, health, voluntary and private sectors to look at how working together can improve end of life care.

There's always something new to learn

Reflecting on the fact that we're learning all the time, Andy Tilden, Director of sector development – skills at Skills for Care, talks to us about why it's so important that the adult social care workforce have the opportunity learn and develop.

Skills for Care responds to the announcement of funding for a workforce retention and recruitment fund

In a statement to the Commons, the Vaccines Minister Maggie Throup MP said: "Today I can confirm to the house that we are making £162.5m available of additional funding for social care through a workforce retention and recruitment fund to help local authorities work with providers to boost staffing and support existing care workers through the winter".

The Outstanding Diversity Forum’s London Pride march 2024

We hear the story of the Outstanding Diversity Forum’s Pride march, which included teams from care organisations across the sector.