Skills for Care

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Skills for Care

• The Sector Skills Council for Social Care
• Michael Armstrong
• John Clegg
• Fran McDonnell

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Defining Skills for Care?

• Part of the Skills for Care and Development
  Sector Skills Council
• An employer led organisation
• Representative of all sectors
• Skills for Care has a national board and nine
  regional committees

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Skills for Care London Regional Committee
Executive Group
Working Groups
Workforce Dev Funding Group TSIF/ESF/ Brokerage/
Supply side
NMDS Working Group
PQ Regional Planning Group
Sub-Regional Groups Employer Engagement Leadership
and Management Practice Learning Service User
Involvement Care Ambassador Supply side and
assessor development
RR / NTOW Working Group
South West Sub-Group
South East Sub-Group
North East Sub-Group
North West Sub-Group
North Central Sub-Group
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2006/07 Business Plan Objectives

• To provide research into workforce issues that
  influence the policy developments to meet the
  needs of people who use care
• To produce workforce development strategies for
  all areas of the workforce
• To encourage and enable employer led workforce
  development infrastructure at a national,
  regional and local level

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and also..

• To develop , maintain and embed National
  Occupational Standards and a qualification
  framework
• To develop the capacity of Skills for Care by
  supporting our staff, developing our systems and
  becoming demonstrably more efficient and
  effective in order to achieve our strategic
  vision and values

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New Types of Worker Programme

• Funded by Dep't of Health for the creation of
  real new roles that could be tested on the ground
• Puts People who Use Services and Carers at the
  heart of the delivery of Care Services
• Training and workforce development issues were
  crucial but secondary to the implementation of
  new types of worker systems
• 28 pilot sites across England have been involved
  in Phase 1 of the project - 6 have been
  designated as Continuation sites for Phase 2 of
  the New Types of Worker Programme

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Examples of Pilot Sites in Phase 1

• Association of Black Social Workers and Allied
  Professionals
• Blackpool Learning Disability Partnership
• Devon Childrens Trust
• Hampshire County Council Sensory Early
  Intervention Service
• Jewish Care Dementia Development Project

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Predominant Types of Activity

• Hybrid roles - sought to redefine boundaries
  between professionals
• Ordinary Life roles have involved shifts
  towards person- centred styles
• Service User led roles have involved people who
  use services and carers as direct providers of
  services or as trainers, partners and evaluators
• Roles Strengthening Community Support working
  with existing community networks to provide a
  central reference point

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The Pilot sites have shown..

• In order to move forward we need to allow people
  to question and challenge existing roles and
  understandings
• We need to be able to define the workforce more
  widely than those who are formally employed
• We need to challenge and eradicate sector
  boundaries.
• Pursue Integrated services for real change and
• revaluate how services are commissioned

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New Types of Worker Phase 2

• Regional Roll out
• - consolidation of existing activity
• - support for Continuation Sites
• - comprehensive mapping and analysis
• - Links to National Occupational
• Standards
• Development of the Role Framework -
• Underpinning Principles

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Mapping current work

• Identify emerging new roles, models and
  frameworks
• Involve all stakeholders including those outside
  current networks
• Identify good practice and critical success
  factors
• Identify poor practice and barriers to
  implementation
• Identify characteristics and skills needed
• Audit these against current standards and
  qualifications and identify gaps
• Contribute to a regional plan to support new
  roles
• Support awareness raising and dissemination
  activities

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Consultation support

• Responding to an initial short questionnaire to
  find out about developments
• Interviews to collect more detailed information
  using a national template
• Visits to pilot sites to talk to users of
  services about their experiences of new ways of
  working
• Attendance at focus groups to research employers
  views

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Communication Strategy

• Established to ensure that we link to key
  partners and stakeholders e.g CSIP
• Expanding existing information channels and
  methods
• Testing out assumptions and findings
• Making available the wealth of learning from
  phase 1 of the project including Evaluation
  report (Kessler)

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Linking to the wider picture

• Options for Excellence (Rec Retention)
• Childrens Workforce Development Council (CWDC)
• Dep't of Health
• Skills for Health
• Community Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)

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NToW Publications

• Redesigned and Redrawn Developing New Roles in
  Social Care
• Developing the role of Personal Assistants.
• Profiling the Innovators
• Organisational Change and Workforce Development
• Learning Support 2004-2006
• www.skillsforcare.org.uk

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2007/08 Business Plan

• Employer Engagement via London region -
• NMDS/SCILD/Communications
• NTOW/ Recruitment and Retention
• Brokerage / Training Strategy Implementation
  Funding (TSIF)
• PQ Framework
• National Occupational Standards Consultation
  and Promotion

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0708 Business Plan

• Employer Engagement / Partnership development
• Practice Placements
• Sharing Good Practice
• Access to Libraries
• E Learning
• Leadership and Management
• Supply side development / assessors
• Service User and Carer Participation

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Contact Details

• Skills for Care London
• Kensington Charity Centre
• 375 Kensington High Street
• W14 8QH
• michael.armstrong_at_skillsforcare.org.uk Tel
  07792293695
• john.clegg_at_skillsforcare.org.uk Tel
  07791594718
• Fran McDonnell (NToW Mapping)
• fran.mcdonnell_at_btinternet.com Tel
  020 8840 2862