1. Skills for Care
Diane Buddery:
Digital Support for Providers

2. Using technology to provide excellent social care.
Support for social care providers.

3. Who are Skills for Care?
We are the England wide body responsible for the social care workforce. We help with;
Local support
Practical tools
Workforce intelligence
Qualifications and standards

4. The use of technology can offer social care employers and those who receive social care;
Improved quality
Improved safety
Improved choice
Improved dignity

5. However we know that challenges for the sector remain significant.
Cost
Expertise
Leadership
Systems; investment and choice!
Workforce skills
Interoperability
Information sharing

6. Support available Information getting the foundations right
Key concerns are;
Information
getting the foundations right
Being able to share information
Getting staff skilled and engaged
Leadership and risk

7. Information and getting the basics right.
Digital Engagement and Support Service (to be known as Digital Social Care) now live.
Consortia of social care bodies (by the sector, for the sector)
One stop shop website of advice, information, guidance and forums on all things digital!
Development of core standards for technology
Development of a digital measurement tool for employers to gauge their readiness for digital ways of working.

8. Being able to safely share information.
Skills for Care resources on
Guide to information sharing
GDPR guide
Data Protection and Data Protection Champion role guidance
Data Protection and Security Toolkit
More on this later from Katie!

9. Getting staff skilled and engaged.
Skills for Care resources on;
Guide to cyber security
Core digital skills
More guidance within ‘Becoming a Digital Social Care Organisation’

10. Leadership and risk
Skills for Care guidance;
‘Becoming a Digital social care Organisation’.
3 video case studies of leaders describing their journey and how they overcame barriers.

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