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WorldSkills Heat 1 Winner Fredrikka Walker

Triumph for West Midlands and West Yorkshire Care Workers at WorldSkills 2015 UK Health and Social Care Competition

Competitors from Shipley College in Saltaire and Coventry based CWT Chamber Training scooped the first prizes in the two initial heats in this year’s
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News release – South and City College Birmingham to Host WorldSkills UK Heats for Health and Social Care

The world’s largest vocational skills competition starts in Birmingham on 13th & 14th May 2015. The annual WorldSkills UK competition, which aims
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The Carers of the Future

An interesting statistic which bodes well for the care industry came up recently when we asked the student and trainee applicants for this year WorldS
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Values based recruitment – fad or crucial?

Values based recruitment – is it just a fad or crucial for improving the care sector as so many experts are saying? Obviously we are not in any
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WorldSkills 2015 Update – The Heats

March and April were frantic times for our judges of this year’s WorldSkills UK Health and Social Care competition. Whittling down the avalanche of ap
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When ‘Quality Assured’ Isn’t Good Enough

With the introduction of the Care Certificate in March 2015, aimed at tackling the inconsistencies in the preparation of healthcare assistants and soc
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The Healthcare Support Workforce Report

A new Labour Market Intelligence report has been launched that applauds the ‘unsung heroes’ in the NHS and UK health sector – the health support workf
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Great leaders are born that way

After reading the recent Guardian article on ‘Where are social care’s future leaders?’ we thought it worth adding in a point about the importanc
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WorldSkills 2015 Managing Partner announcement

Profiles4Care has become the 2015 Managing Partner for the WorldSkills UK Health and Social Care competition. WorldSkills UK inspires young people and
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Adult social care sector will need an additional 1m workers by 2025

Update from Jackie Brooks at Care Industry News on an important new research project. The adult Social Care sector in England alone will need an addit
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