National publications

Download a number of the most recent publications from Skills for Care.  You can visit the national Skills for Care website to download more. 

• "Who we are"
• Our offer to employers
• Latest Care magazine
• Working with Skills for Care in the regions
• Finders Keepers toolkit

Funding

• Funding and resource guide (updated July 2010)
• TSI funding explained
• Guidance on NMDS-SC completion for TSI

Self care

• Self care training manual (link to national website)

Qualification and credit framework (QCF) and SQS

• New qualifications for the adult social care sector (revised)
• Learner guide
• Employer guide
• Training provider guide

NMDS-SC

• NMDS-SC briefing no. 12 (revisiting turnover and vacancy rates)
• NMDS-SC briefing no. 11(Using NMDS-SC information across the social care sector)
• NMDS-SC briefing 10 (adults with learning disabilities)  
• Previous NMDS-SC briefings
• NMDS-SC case study - Hollytree
• NMDS-SC case study - Sheffcare

InLAWS practical tools

• Visit our national website to download "Getting to grips with the InLAWS concept", "Getting organised to progress InLAWS", "the InLAWS Position Statement", "Guide to workforce planning" and case studies.

Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSW) resources

• Visit our national site to download the Newly Qualified Social Workers resource pack.

General publications

• Learning from the 24 PQ innovation projects
• Keeping up the good work: practical CPD guide (link to national website)
• New and emerging roles in assistive technology 
• Sector route-way for care
• LeaRNS briefing no 7
• Helping social care workers to support carers leaflet
• Recruitment and selection toolkit for small to medium employers
• Recruitment and retention_toolkit - personal assistants
• Skills for life toolkit
• Competencies and principles for end of life care
• New types of worker - key messages
• New types of worker - new and emerging roles  
• Common core principles for self care
• Management induction standards

Practice learning

• Practice learning_1- sustaining social work practice learning with local authorities
• Practice learning_2 -  revisiting 'new approaches to practice learning'
• Practice learning_3 -  how new projects and initiatives in social work practice learning successfully mature
• Practice learning_4 - practice learning in national organisations
• Quality assurance for practice learning