Skills for Care: Supporting Employers and Work Based Learning

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Skills for Care Supporting Employers and Work
Based Learning

• Graham Woodham
• Regional Development Manager
• Skills for Care - South East
• 20th June 2007

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Skills for Care Vision Statement

• Our Vision
• To put employers in the driving seat on social
  care workforce issues
• To create a trained and qualified workforce
  providing high quality care
• To provide an expert voice to the social care
  workforce

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Skills for Care Business Plan

• Five Strategic Objectives
• To provide information about the social care
  workforce.
• To provide support to employers with workforce
  planning.
• To enable employer-led workforce development at
  national, regional and local levels.
• To maintain National Occupational Standards and
  Career Pathways for social care.
• To maintain the capacity of Skills for Care to
  deliver its corporate and business objectives.

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The Sector Skills Council

• Employer led
• Skills for Care and Development
• Skills for Care
• Childrens Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
• Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland
• Shared resources between Skills for Care and CWDC

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Supporting Employers

• Aspiration
• employers see benefits of Skills for Care
  activity directly impacting on their business
• employers (usually through agreed representation)
  contribute to the development, implementation
  and evaluation of the workforce development
  agenda for social care

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Supporting Employers

• Employer Engagement
• Sector Skills Council core business
• Sector Skills Agreements
• Leitch Report proposals
• Skills for Care local activity

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Areas of work

• National Minimum Data Set Social Care (NMDS-SC)
• New Types of Worker
• Sector Skills Agreement
• Recruitment Retention
• Care Ambassadors
• Employer Resources
• 14-19 Diplomas/Apprenticeships
• Learning Disability activity
• Brokerage
• Learning Resource Network
• Work based learning

• Continuous Professional Development (inc. Post
  Qualifying framework)
• Practice Learning
• Communications and networks
• Training Strategy Implementation (TSI grants)
• National Occupational Standards
• People Who Use Services, and carers.

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Supporting Employers

• Sector Skills Agreement (SSA)
• Stage 2 Report submitted to SSDA.
• Stage 3 Consultation Sussex 28th June 2007,
  10am-1pm at Brighton Racecourse.
• Involving Employers and People who use Services
  and Carers
• Six across the South East one in each
  Sub-region
• Crucial to our future workforce development plans
  and activity
• Sector Qualifications Strategy (SQS)

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Supporting Employers

• Brokerage Activity
• South East Care Advice Service (SECAS)
• Skills Analysis against NOS
• Individual and Organisational development plans
• Learning advice service
• ESF/LSC funded via contract with Skills for Care
  for 2.3m
• Agreed activity volumes in each sub-region,
  delivered through Care Associations
• Small/Medium Enterprise (SMEs) under 250
  employees
• Adult Care Sector
• Key part of the Skills for Care South East
  activity in each sub-region
• Integration of employer focussed activities

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Supporting Employers

• NMDS-SC (National Minimum Data Set Social Care)
• Data Gathering projects are now established in
  all sub-regions for PVI sector
• Aligned to SECAS
• Local Authority work now underway
• Organisational/employee data

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Work Based Learning

• A better skilled, better qualified workforce
• Employer/provider partnerships
• Improving access, flexible approaches
• Promoting learning organisations
• Continuous Professional Development
• Improving Recruitment and Retention
• Learning at Work
• Placements

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Work Based Learning

• NVQ awards
• Assessors and Verifiers
• Expert Witness
• Induction Standards
• In-house/on-the-job development
• Skills Knowledge Sets

• Care Ambassadors
• Specialist Diploma
• Apprenticeships
• Foundation Degrees
• Social Work Students
• Other professional groups
• Post Qualifying Framework

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The South East Team

• Regional Development Manager
• Graham Woodham
• Workforce Planning Development Project Manager
• David Cubey
• Regional Development Officer
• Carl Biddle
• RDO (PQ Practice Learning)
• Recruiting

• Regional Administrator Lilian Meagher
• Finance Tracey Lord
• Contracts Monitoring Officer appointment
  pending
• Lead Co-ordinators in each sub-region

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The Sub-regions

• Berkshire
• Chair Marianne Davis
• Co-ordinator David Shinegold
• Hants IOW
• Chair Nikki Griffiths
• Co-ordinator Jay Greene
• Kent Medway
• Chair Norman Temple
• Co-ordinator Bonnie Armstrong

• Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire Bucks
• Chair Frances Mills
• Co-ordinator Cathy Lloyd/Christine Simm
• Surrey
• Chair Andrew Lord
• Co-ordinator Erica Lockhart
• Sussex
• Chair Bob Skinner
• Co-ordinator Barbara Hall

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Skills for Care Mission Statement

• Our mission is to improve
• Employers confidence in the competence and
  capacity of their workforce
• Employees confidence in their own knowledge and
  skills
• Service users confidence in the quality of
  service that they are receiving

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Skills for Care South East

• Contact Us
• Regional Office 01932 853500
• Fax [phone]
• seregion_at_skillsforcare.org.uk
• Graham Woodham 07976 287309
• graham.woodham_at_skillsforcare.org.uk
• Carl Biddle 07989 355886
• carl.biddle_at_skillsforcare.org.uk
• David Cubey 07791 594819
• david.cubey_at_skillsforcare.org.uk
• www.skillsforcare.org.uk