£2.4m funding for dementia workforce developmentSkills for Care will make £2.4 million available to employers through the Workforce Development Dementia Fund to support the completion of relevant accredited qualifications by those members of the workforce who support people with dementia. Read more »
Skills for Care and Dementia UK have jointly published of a new guide designed exclusively for the social care workforce which aims to spread best practice in supporting family carers of people with dementia. Read more »
Skills for Care and Skills for Health have produced Common Core Principles for Supporting People With Dementia: A Guide to Training the Social Care and Health Workforce. Read more »
Skills for Care recently published Learning from Innovation a report exploring the knowledge from the New Types of Worker programme and its implications for the transformation of the workforce in adult social care. Read more »
A whole range of new qualifications are being developed by Skills for Care in partnership with awarding organisations through the Qualification Credit Framework (QCF). Read more »