CASC TC Agenda
09.30am Registration and Refreshments
10.00am Introduction, welcome and feedback
10.15am National Drivers
10.35am Break-out Groups – Discussion and feedback
10.55am Updates WDT, VQ Centre and CCTN
11.10am Refreshments and Networking
11.30am Skills for Care update
11.45am Guest Presentation: Lisette Veit
“English as a Second Language & Functional Skills”
12.15pm Break-out Groups – Discussion and feedback
12.45pm Round-up and Questions
1.00pm Close
Housekeeping…….
Comfort
Breaks
Feedback from previous
meeting……
 35 people attended
 Talk on a Theme: Marika Newman, Cambridgeshire
Mencap. Experience of working with volunteers
 Guest presentation: ‘Recruiting and supporting
volunteers’ by Anne Littlefair, Cambridge and District
Volunteer Centre
 Positive Feedback received
 Changes to upcoming dates
TOPIC FOR TODAY IS:
Multicultural Employment and
Functional Skills
National Drivers
Danny Gibb
Workforce Development Manager (Adults) Manager
What's new in Social Care Workforce Development?
 The state of play
 The need to transform?
 Francis and Cavendish reports
 The Care Bill
 The Local picture
The state of play
 100% increase in over 85’s
 90% increase in people with severe and moderate
needs
 Spending will need to increase by 37% by 2022 to keep
pace with needs
 Current period of austerity expected to continue to at
least 2018
The case for Transformation…
 Current model is unsustainable
 We need to do more with less
 Workforce running to keep up
 Recruitment and retention
 Limited choice and independence
Francis, Winterborn and Cavendish reports
 Francis and Winterbourne reports show what can go
wrong
 Cavendish puts an emphasis on the training and
development needs of the workforce.
 The development of a Care Certificate and improved
quality assurance in training
 Career Pathways
 Values based recruitment (SfC pilot underway)
 Social Care Commitment
 Improved leadership across the sector
The Care and Support Bill
 In place by 2015
 Brings together existing care legislation into a single act
 Greater integration between Health and Social Care
 Improving Information to people
 Consistent eligibility criteria and increase in application
 Personalisation and Prevention
Workforce Development
 SfC, National Skills Academy, Health Education
England, College of SW all working together to respond
 Revision if Vocational Qualifications and Occupational
standards
 Improved Career Pathways
 Series of SfC workshops in October 2014 and April
2015 to support those designing and delivering
workforce development
What does this mean locally
 We need to be more personalised and preventative
 Enable people to live more independently
 Strength and asset based approached
 Develop communities
 Re-emergence of Social Work
 Re-ablement and Assistive Technologies
 Increase skills and knowledge across the sector
 Undertake more complex work and crisis intervention
CCC Workforce Development Team
 Being responsive to National drivers
 Continue to work in partnership with the sector
 Establishing training standards
 Developing and Delivering Training and Qualifications
 Information (CAST TC, CCTN)
 Hands on Support – Training Compliance, Reg
Mangers group
 NMDS – Start-up support
 Funding Support – Workforce Development Fund
Any Questions?
Danny Gibb
Workforce Development Manager (Adults)
danny.gibb@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Updates………
 Workforce Development Team (Adults)
 VQ assessment Centre
 Cambridgeshire Care Training Network (CCTN)
 Skills for Care
VQ Assessment Centre
 New Cambridgeshire County Council (Children, Families and
Adults) VQ Assessment Centre
 Level 5 Diploma in Leadership in Health & Social Care and
Children & Young People Services Workshops for Mandatory Units
 Higher (Level 5) Apprenticeship in Care Leadership & Management
Skills Funding Agency (SFA) Funding
 Level 2 Award in Awareness of Dementia – 20 June 2014
 Level 3 Award in Education and Training (formally PTLLS) – July
2014
 Future qualifications
Vocational Qualification Advisers
Administrator
carol.mccarthy@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
beverly.brown@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
liz.winmill@cambrigeshire.gov.uk
CCTN - Update
 Workforce Development Fund – final call for 2013
units
 Registered Managers Network
 Your help with refreshing training information
 CCTN QA commitment
Coordinator:
ruth.heard@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Web Dev & NMDS support: patrick.sheil@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Website:
www.cctn.org.uk
we help people who do
a great job do it better
Multicultural employment and the
development of functional skills
Carolyn Holmes Area officer
07792293695
carolyn.holmes@skillsforcare.org.uk
Why support staff with functional skills?
Care Bill & Personalised care
DH factsheets
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/th
e-care-bill-factsheets
Why Skills for Life ?
 Recruitment & Retention
Social Care Commitment
Quality People, Quality Care
Employers promise to give their workers the
development they need.
Staff promise to put their values into
practice in their daily work.
Seven statements of commitment,
“I will…”
Guidance and tasks.
Resources.
www.thesocialcarecommitment.org.uk
Care Skills base
Move on!
National Careers service
Skills for Care resources
1.
Learning through Work managers guide - bite-size
chunks of learning in 8 small booklets. Also separate learners
pack
Learn from Learning
And finally...
 Apprenticeship week 3- 7 March
 “Great Businesses” are made by apprentices and
Apprenticeships lead to “Great Prospects.”
 local area events http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/
 Any questions? Please get in touch !
Guest Presentation
Meeting feedback and close
1. Future Meeting Topics?
2. What went well?
3. What could we do better?
4. Any other comments?
Presenters Contact Details
Martine Grzybek: Workforce Development Coordinator
Email: martine.grzybek@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Danny Gibb: Workforce Development Manager (Adults)
Email: danny.gibb@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Carol McCarthy: Vocational Qualification Adviser
Email: carol.mccarthy@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Ruth Heard: External Development Coordinator – CCTN
Email: ruth.heard@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Caroline Holmes: Area Officer – Skills for Care
Email: carolyn.holmes@skillsforcare.org.uk
Lisette Veit: Adult Learning and Skills
Email: lisette.veit@cambridgeshire.gov.uk