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Review of Health and Social Care NOS

Skills for Care are consulting on the Health and Social Care National Occupational Standards. To find out more and contribute visit the Skills for Care web site… click here

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New Sector Qualification Strategy from Skills for Health

Skills for Health have now published their new Sector Qualification Strategy. This includes that qualifications must be employer led and based on National Occupational Standards. There is particular need to support the Assistant Practitioner Role through such qualifications. To read … Continue reading

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Funding secured for a new National Skills Academy for Health

Extract from Skills for Health newsletter Buoyed by the award of a business case development grant from the Government´s Growth and Innovation Fund, we are actively working to expand our employer services through a National Skills Academy for Health with … Continue reading

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Common core principles for supporting people with dementia – Department of Health

The ‘Common core principles for supporting people with dementia’ have been produced jointly by Skills for Care and Skills for Health.

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Skills for Care and Development Assessor Qualifications Statement

Skills for Care and Development, Awarding Organisations and Skills for Health have agreed a set of assessment principles. In this there was a commitment (point 4.3) to provide a list of qualifications that assessors must hold in order to be deemed qualified … Continue reading

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