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How Leeds City Council’s Community Health and Well-being Service is making lives better

In this article, we hear from Cath Roff MBE, Project Director: Social Care Transformation, on the launch of the ‘Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care’ and their upcoming Community Health and Well-being Service.

Paula - Registered Manager

Learn from Paula's inspiring personal journey and gain insights into exploring your own care options. Find the support and guidance you need to make informed decisions.

Donna - Registered Nursing Associate

Learn from Donnas inspiring personal journey and gain insights into exploring your own care options. Find the support and guidance you need to make informed decisions.

Assessing the Care Certificate

Assessing the Care Certificate course is vital for assessors to ensure they have the necessary training and for them to fully understand their role and responsibilities within the process.

Changes to learning and development funding for adult social care

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently announced their plans to develop the adult social care workforce in England as part of ongoing reform work.

Guide to improvement

This 'Guide to improvement' helps adult social care employers to identify, plan and implement improvements across their service. It draws on 'good' and outstanding' practice to help your service to, not only meet CQC expectations but exceed them. It includes checklists and examples to help you to identify what your service needs to improve, and to develop an action plan to implement the required changes.

The PA workforce in social care and health

This report outlines findings from a recent study which set out to establish a picture of personal assistants (PAs) working across social care and health in England. It looks specifically at the supply and recruitment of PAs, models of PA employment and consistency between social care and health.

PAs continuing to support people during a hospital admission

When personal assistants (PAs) continue to support their employer during a hospital admission, this can have lots of benefits for the individual. This guide outlines the benefits and shares learning and top tips about what works well, to help individual employers, local authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to work together to put the right processes in place to make it happen.

6 - Leading a person-centred service

This standard relates to providing person-centred support which brings about positive outcomes for people who need care and support.

Supporting workforce capability

Skills for Care works to ensure people working in care have the right skills, knowledge, competencies, values and behaviours to meet current and future needs in our communities. We do this by defining the knowledge, skills and capabilities needed now and in the future, developing and reviewing learning and development to fill the gaps, helping care providers and their staff to access training, and ensuring there's a vibrant learning market.