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PA working and CQC registration

The advice note from Skills for Care has guidance on whether PAs might need to (or not) register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

A guide to safe staffing

We run through how to ensure you’re maintaining safe staffing levels, enabling you to deliver safe, high-quality care.

How the Department of Health and Social Care is supporting learning and development

Gareth Young, Deputy Director for Adult Social Care Workforce Reform at the Department of Health and Social Care, shares how their current projects work together to support vital learning and development in adult social care.

South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Trust

This is an example agreement that the Trust uses when staff from the community team support people on hospital wards/units. You could use it as a template to develop something similar in your local area.

FAQs for PAs about doing the Care Certificate as part of induction

FAQs about personal assistants completing the Care Certificate.

Integrated Care Systems - Getting the right workforce development support to ICSs

To provide support to systems to develop workforce strategies that take account of the needs of the whole population and ensure that there is sufficient workforce with the appropriate skills to deliver the appropriate person-centred care throughout the whole health and care pathway.

Learning and development

Learning and development webinar and event recordings for IEs and PAs.

Code of Conduct

The Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers and Adult Social Care Workers in England

Advice from a service with success in reducing pressure across the system

We reflect on a recent chat with Lynn James-Wellings from CareFirst 24 where we discussed integration and reducing pressure across the care system.

Skills for Care's response to independent commission into adult social care announcement

Skills for Care responds to the announcement that Baroness Louise Casey will Chair an Independent Commission into adult social care.