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Have you applied to the Workforce Development Innovation Fund?

Just four days to go until the deadline for submissions to the Workforce Development Innovation Fund. If you are applying, have you considered the imp
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Workforce Development Innovation Fund

The Workforce Development Innovation Fund (WDIF) is now open for applications. It supports innovative projects which increase the skills and competenc
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Latest figures on the adult social care sector published

Skills for Care’s new flagship ‘Size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce’ report is now available. http://www.skillsforc
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A new recruit at Profiles4Care

Joining Profiles4Care as our new Employer Engagement Manager is Harriet Phillips. Previously the Programme Manager for Skills for Care’s Graduate Sche
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Social care heading for skills ‘time bomb’

Recruiter Magazine Reports on Worrying Industry Trend The social care industry is heading for both a budgetary, as well as a skills, shortage if it fa
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The size and structure of the adult social care sector

The latest workforce intelligence from Skills for Care, using data from the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) is presented in an upd
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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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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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Skills for Care Recruitment and Retention Strategy Survey Launched

Dear Colleague, Skills for Care, working with the Department of Health’s Recruitment and Retention Group are seeking the sectors’ views on how we refr
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