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- 1,000 voices - target achieved!
- The 2009 Accolades are launched
- 8th annual North West conference is a great success!
- Access social care journals for free with an Athens password
- Addressing the under-representation of black and minority ethnic communities
- Adult social care apprentices meet Health Secretary
- Adult social care graduate management trainee scheme
- Alix Crawford acting Regional Development Manager
- Alix Crawford appointed as Regional Development Manager
- Apprenticeship and Care First Careers events. Dowload the presentations
- Apprenticeship newsletter January 09
- Apprenticeships - find out about grants, the 2010 Awards, apprenticeship week and regional events
- Are you recruiting or looking for volunteers?
- Autism strategy - public consultation launched
- Backing young Britain campaign
- Barbara Pointon to speak at Care Ambassador conference on 29th September 2009
- "Be the Difference" - social work recruitment campaign
- Skills for Care says better training will help improve use of anti-psychotic drugs
- Book a meeting at our offices and receive free refreshments!
- Book your place at one of our many free events
- Bookings now being taken for "Putting people first, working to make it happen" event
- Brokerage event (3rd Dec) - presentations available
- Brokerage event - presentations available
- Building user and carer involvement in social work education
- Business plan summary highlights key activities for the next year
- Calling training providers to register on the north west training providers directory
- Care ambassador funding helps attract young people to careers in care
- Care ambassador schemes awarded funding
- Care ambassadors - find out more and join your local scheme
- "Care ambassadors in the North West" - event report
- Care First Careers - find out more
- Care Magazine - latest edition available
- Care magazine - latest edition out
- Care Magazine now out
- Care Manager Stuart Simmons wins Caring Council Worker of the Year award
- Care Services Minister launches new Accolades category
- Care Skillsbase launched at Skills for Care national conference
- Caring with confidence
- Cash bonus to give young jobless a start in social care
- Catch up on our participation work
- common core principles and competences for end of life care
- Celebrate 2009 apprenticeship week
- Cheshire LRN are recruiting a Workforce Development Officer
- Cheshire LRN Co-ordinator vacancy - opportunity to host
- Cheshire LRN - update for 2009/10
- Combating violence against adult social care staff and volunteers
- Common Core Principles to support self-care
- Consultation on newly qualified social workers
- Core standards for assistant practitioners
- "Countdown to Personalisation? event report
- Countdown to the 2010 Accolades
- CPD and the private, voluntary and independent sector
- Crossroad Cheshire West and Wirral - October newsletter
- Care Sector Alliance Cumbria - celebration report
- Cumbria development day - download the presentations
- Cumbria provider development day - event report
- Cumbria - personal budgets have started!
- CWDC - October newsletter
- Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson guest speaker at international conference
- Dates for your diary - 2009/10 events
- Dates for your diary - apprenticeship workshops
- Delegates get on board to support apprenticeships and care first careers
- Developing integrated local area workforce strategies
- Department of Health social care recruitment campaign to be launched soon
- Download LeaRNS briefing six
- Download NMDS-SC presentations from recent Merseyside workshop
- DVD spotlights satisfying career
- E-bulletin - workforce planning
- Employer and Stakeholder briefings
- Employer briefing looks at three key topics
- Employer champions wanted!
- End of life care and the gold standards
- End of life care - briefing available
- Education and training provider database
- Education and training provider development day event report and presentations
- Education and training provider event - change of date
- Excellence in practice learning - case studies from the North West
- Exploring outcomes - new toolkit
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- Fiona Phillips to host Accolades Awards
- Free access to e-journals and databases
- Get connected funding
- Get involved in the QCF - reference groups to join
- Greater Merseyside Skills Cluster
- Have you got good practice to share?
- Health and social care apprenticeship framework update
- Health and social care awards - enter now
- Health and social care: partnership working to achieve better outcomes - download the presentations
- Help develop a new qualification for those who support people with dementia
- Help us to develop new qualifications
- Hendra Healthcare scoops award at National Apprenticeship Awards
- I Care.... recruitment quiz
- Investors in people - case studies
- Individual Budgets pilot evaluation report
- InLAWS project - new resources available
- InLAWS survey: Meeting the workforce challenges of personalisation in social care in England.
- Innovations in Participation - case study booklet available
- Interactive DVD showcases careers in care
- Invitation to quote - teacher's pack
- Invitation to Tender - Social Work Development
- Involving people who use services in recruitment - a good practice guide
- Issue 12 of Care magazine is now available!
- Issue 13 of Care magazine is now available!
- Invitation to Tender - Assessment of the Practice Educator Framework
- Invitation to tender - NQSW Framework in Adult Services
- Joint Improvement Partnership report and strategy open for consultation
- "Jobscity" sees 2,500 jobseekers attending a careers fair
- Join the big care debate
- Joint Improvement Partnership project on knowledge management and evidence based practice
- Lancashire follow on event - download the presentations
- Lancashire provider development day cancelled
- Lancashire Sub-regional Coordinator - new number
- Lancashire sub-region explores personalisation
- Learning disability knowledge set trainer's toolkit
- LeaRNS briefing number 5 - LeaRNS moves forward
- LeaRNS expression of interest
- Lynda Bellingham praises adult social care workers at Skills for Care's national conference
- Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) calls for evidence for second partial review
- Manchester development day - download the presentations
- Manchester follow on event - download the presentations
- Manchester Provider Development Day - event report and download the presentations
- Manchester provider event - download the presentations
- Meet the dragons and win funding for your research
- Merseyside follow on event - download the presentations
- Merseyside good practice event - presentations available
- Merseyside leadership and management roadshows confirmed
- Merseyside LINks - get involved in your local group
- Merseyside provider day - event report
- Merseyside providers explore personalisation - event report
- Migration Advisory Committee publishes first review of shortage occupation lists for skilled workers
- Migration Advisory Committee - your help needed
- New alliance of sector skills councils
- New and emerging roles in dementia
- New career pathways pages now live
- New department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- New Leadership and Management products launched
- New personalisation publications available
- New publications to be downloaded
- New research finds reputation for quality care, flexibility of employment and training are key to recruiting and retaining care workers
- New resources from SCIE
- New survey pinpoints workforce commissioning priorities in adult social care
- New who we are brochure published
- Newly qualified social workers
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- News from sector - 16th January
- News from the sector - 29th July 2009
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- News from the sector - 21st November
- News from the sector - 7th November
- NHS North West supports adult learning week
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- NHS North West Adult Learners Week awards in health and social care 2010
- NHS North West - whole organisation approach to Skills for Life
- NMDS-SC briefing number 9 focuses on older people with dementia
- NMDS-SC - guidance on updating your return
- NMDS-SC Briefing 10 focuses on adults with learning disabilities
- NMDS-SC improvements will produce rich data on sector qualification levels and migrant workers
- NMDS-SC - latest analysis publications
- NMDS-SC online - useful guidance
- NMDS-SC: are you missing out?
- NMDS-SC briefing issue 11 - Using NMDS-SC information across the social care sector
- NMDS-SC briefing no 7 available
- NMDS-SC briefing no 8 focuses on pay
- NMDS-SC case studies
- NMDS-SC consultation for people using services, and carers
- NMDS-SC national stakeholder consultation on adopting the QCF
- NMDS-SC workshops being held in Cumbria
- North West project to develop a framework for a foundation degree in social care with a specialist pathway in dementia
- North West website has a new layout
- North West celebrates big win at 2008 Accolades!
- North West celebrates double win at 2009 Accolades!
- National Occupational Standards being developed in 'engaging employers'
- National Occupational Standards - Health and Social Care
- Learning and Development National Occupational Standards update - October 2009
- Now is the time for talentmap
- Newly-Qualified Social Worker (NQSW) scheme for social work in adult services
- Skills for Care welcomes £4 million support package for Newly Qualified Social Workers
- New types of working in health and social care conference - half price delegate fee offer
- New Types of Worker programme becomes Workforce Action Learning programme
- New types of worker second international conference - call for papers
- North West Alliance - February 2010 newsletter
- North West Alliance - latest briefing
- North West Alliance - latest e-briefing
- North West Alliance - October briefing
- North West celebrate 5 Accolade finalists
- North West celebrate sucessful year in this year's Annual Review
- North West Joint Improvement Partnership launches website
- North West region plans for the upcoming year
- North West represented at Parliamentary reception
- North West SSC Alliance - November briefing
- NWDA support 2000 small to medium organisations through the LEAD programme
- Opportunity to apply for funding for practice learning
- Pandemic flu - feedback opportunity
- Practice Education Developments - bursary, practice educator framework and demonstration sites project
- Personal assistant case studies
- Personal care at home bill - draft regulations available
- Personal care at home bill - take part in the consultation
- Planning begins for regional events
- PQ Bursaries - criteria extended
- PQ bursary funds available to support post qualifying education
- Practice assessors gather to share good practice
- Practice learning development day - event report
- Presentations from the Foundation Degree Workshops
- Presentations help to 'bust myths' in social care
- Professor David Croisdale-Appleby awarded OBE in New Year Honours list
- Promoting apprenticeships in the North West
- Promoting apprenticeships - leaflets available
- Provider development days - dates for your diary
- Provider development support offered by the JIP
- "Putting people first" - 25 November 2009 event presentations
- Putting People First - supporting delivery
- Putting people first working to make it happen event
- People who use services, and carers consult on new foundation degree
- Qualification and credit framework - latest briefing
- Qualifications and Credit Framework will drive up standards for dementia training
- Qualification and standards event - change of date
- Question Time event will focus on personalisation in social work
- Recent changes to the Regional Committee
- Report into good practice in recruiting people aged over 50
- Report on shortage of adults' social workers
- Reports from recent Cheshire events
- Review of the Learning and Development National Occupational Standards.
- Ribble Valley care home strikes gold
- Roundtable discussion on support brokerage
- Self care training manual - now available
- Skills for Care North West welcome new Chair
- Skills for Care launch Accolades 2010 celebrating the very best practice in social care workforce development
- Skills for Care and Jobcentre Plus join forces at social care employment conference
- Skills for Care backs National Apprenticeship week
- Skills for Care backs National Dignity Day
- Skills for Care CEO Andrea Rowe to retire in 2010
- Skills for Care launch consultation on new knowledge sets
- Skills for Care launch consultation to refresh Common Induction Standards
- Skills for Care launch first Sensory Services National Occupational Standards
- Skills for Care launch Newly Qualified Social Worker framework
- Skills for Care launch online funding guide for employers
- Skills for Care offers support for under-performing organisations
- Skills for Care seeks views from employers on best practice guidelines for workforce development.
- Skills for Care sends work placement guide to every school and college in England
- Skills for Care sponsors Great North West Care Awards
- Skills for Care supports the Great British Care Awards
- Skills for Care to launch Newly Qualified Social Worker framework
- Skills for Care welcomes announcement that Green Paper will be published next month
- Skills for Care welcomes Cabinet Office report into social care learning and skills
- Skills for Care welcomes invitation to work closely with the Social Work Taskforce
- Skills for Care welcomes new Green Paper proposal to create National Care Service
- Skills for Care welcomes new Social Work Taskforce report as 'comprehensive' review of the profession
- Skills for Care welcomes spotlight on workforce training in first Care Quality Commission report
- Skills for Care welcomes the Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy
- Skills for Care Yorkshire release five tenders
- Skills for Care and Development's annual review reports on 'great progress'
- Skills for Care and Development newsletter February 2009
- Skills for Health - latest newsletter
- Skills for Health launch new website
- Skills for Life April e-bulletin
- Skills for Life - ebulletin November 08
- Sign up for a foundation degree workshop
- Skills Academy invites carers to enter prestigious national caring competition
- Skills for Care launch Common Core Principles for End of Life Care
- Skills for Care produce funding guide
- Skills for Care welcomes appointment of Paul Ennals to chair the Children's Workforce Development Council
- "Skills for Growth ? the national skills strategy" - Skills for Care summary
- Skills for Health annual review 2008/9
- Sponsor a category at the prestigious Skills for Care Accolades
- Developing tomorrow's workforce today - Sector Skills Agreement (SSA) August update
- The sector skills agreement in the North West
- Sector Skills Council Alliance - impact report
- Sector Skills Councils relicensing - have your say
- Student placement - carers and people who use services' views
- Successful brokerage event held in the North West
- Support brokerage carers and people who use services views
- Supporting social care staff to better support carers
- Social Work Development Partnership focus on practice learning
- Take advantage of our low cost meeting rooms
- Take part in the development of the QCF
- Tell us what you think about your experience of employing personal assistants
- The 2009 Accolades are coming
- The North West leads the way in helping organisations dealing with large scale redundancies
- Theresa Chilton joins the national team of Skills for Care
- Three Newly Qualified Social Worker tenders available
- Toolkit launched aimed at improving recruitment and retention for small to medium employers
- Toolkit to help people employ their own personal assistants
- Training resources for professionals to work better with carers
- Understanding support brokerage - FAQs
- User led organisations project lead - secondment opportunity
- Voluntary organisations - mapping report
- Voluntary sector - engagement strategy launched
- Your health, your way - a guide to long term conditions and self care
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