Website: Skills for Care
Working in consultation with carers, employers and service users, Skills for Care aims to modernise adult social care in England, by ensuring qualifications and standards continually adapt to meet the changing needs of people who use care services.
Skills for Care is the employer led authority on the training standards and development needs of nearly one million social care staff in England providing over £25 million in funding to support improved training and qualifications for managers and staff.
We work with social care employers and training providers both regionally and nationally to establish the necessary standards and qualifications that equip social care workers with the skills needed to deliver an improved standard of care.
This document provides guidance on knowledge sets to improve consistency in the underpinning knowledge learnt by the adult social care workforce in England. It specifies what they are and describes the learning outcomes expected.
(Skills for Care, January 2010)
