Housing with Care and Support Common challenges.

What are the challenges? These include : Funding Lack of compulsion Specialist services (requiring specialist training providers) Limited culture of professionalism in some parts of the sector Anything else? During our work we have heard from employers about some of the challenges they face with developing their workforce.

Activity Can you identify: ways to overcome this (include examples of good practice)? what help do we need to do this and from who? what are the implications for the workforce and how can they be supported? actions – something that you can do differently in the future! Discuss on your tables the challenge(s) that you have been allocated

Solutions a retrospective funding stream from the Department of Health distributed by Skills for Care a finite pot of money which focuses on the achievement of qualification units and supports the on-going professional development of staff across the adult social care sector within England Development-Fund/Workforce-Development-Fund.aspx Workforce Development Fund

Solutions special funding stream within the Workforce Development Fund fund projects that are innovative in their approach to influencing workforce development in the longer term development-innovation-fund/Workforce-development- innovation-fund-(WDIF).aspx Workforce Development Innovation Fund

Skills for Care Resources  Care Certificate  Social Care Commitment  Developing positive workplace cultures  Common core principles for Dignity  Community Skills Development

Skills for Care Resources  Principles of Workforce Re- design  Principles of Workforce Integration  Common Core Principles to support self-care  Recruitment & Retention resources…..  Leadership & Management

Skills for Care Resources  Dementia  Mental Health  Skills Selector  Choosing Workforce Learning  Endorsement Framework  Many, many more……

Solutions The Social Care Commitment Commitment/The-Social-Care-Commitment.aspx Culture Toolkit Common Core Principles for Dignity

Solutions resources and qualifications London & South East e-network Dementia Mental Capacity Act (2005) Act/Mental-Capacity-Act-(2005).aspx

Solutions Endorsement Framework framework/Endorsement-framework.aspx Finding and choosing the right learning Apprenticeships/Finding-learning-providers/Finding-learning- providers.aspx Skills Selector Apprenticeships/Skill-Selector/Skill-Selector.aspx

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