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Thought for today

Please take a minute and support this action against the underfunding of homecare – http://goo.gl/h05n78
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Identifying values

Employee values and attitude are extremely important in any business where potentially vulnerable people are at the centre of it. So much so that an i
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Finding and keeping workers

Every day while we’re speaking to people who contact us to use our values based recruitment tool we regularly hear that they are; “in the proces
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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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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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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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New Guardian Guide on Social Care

Finding the right social care and support can appear overwhelming whether you are an older person realising you can no longer live independently in yo
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Profiles4Care Exceeds its Care Sector Target by 80% in Values Based Recruitment Toolkit Pilot

Demand for Profiles4Care online assessments by Care Sector employers taking part in the Department of Health’s Values Based Recruitment Toolkit (VBRT)
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