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A practical guide to learning and development for PAs

This guide has lots of advice to help PAs develop and progress in their role.

A practical guide to learning and development for personal assistants

This guide helps personal assistants to think about their own learning and development and what support they need from their employer.

A practical guide to learning and development for personal assistants

Skills for Care individual employers practical guide to learning and development for personal assistants - This guide helps personal assistants to think about their own learning and development and what support they need from their employer.

Guidance on flexible working approaches

Guidance on offering flexible working arrangements in adult social care

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.

Tools and resources - How to Make Change Happen - The principles of workforce redesign (May 2023)

The principles of workforce redesign (May 2023). Tools and resources version.

Recommendations for CQC providers

This guide explains what CQC expects to see around your managers and leaders, recruitment and retention, induction and ongoing learning and development. It highlights Skills for Care's products and resources that can help.

New starters' experience - phase 1 research report

Almost half of new starters leave within the first year. This research suggest the best ways to retain new starters and reduce the cost of recruitment.

Principles to Practice - good mental health

How to implement the Common Core Principles and what this might look like in practice.

L5 comms qual report_summary

Principles of Commissioning for Wellbeing level 5 qualification - Impact evaluation. Summary report.