Kirk Lower, National Lead for Talent for Care and Widening Participation
Links between Talent for Care and
Widening Participation
Talent for Care and Widening
Participation are two separate
strategies with their own sets of
objectives.
Widening
Participation
TfC and
WP
Access to medicine
Access to
professions
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Get In
Talent
for Care
Get On
Go Further
The main synchronisation
between the two strategies is in
the ‘Get In’ workstreams, which
satisfy objectives from both
Talent for Care and Widening
Participation. There is also
some commonality across other
areas of the two strategies, but
with each retaining its unique
focus.
Widening Participation
Strategic goals and objectives
1. Improve monitoring & reporting of widening
participation activities
2. Enhance visibility & targeting of health careers
information, advice & guidance
3. Increase, through research & evaluation,
understanding & evidence of what works
4. Increase collaborative approach to outreach e.g. in
community & schools
5. Increase work-related experience opportunities
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Talent for Care
Strategic intentions
Get In
Opportunities for people to start their career in a
support role
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Get On
Support people to be the best they can be in the job
they do
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Go Further
Provide opportunities for career progression, including
into registered professions
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Making It Happen
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Ongoing project work
Campaign run and resources delivered
by NHS Employers – encouraging and
supporting employers to recruit more
young people.
Increasing work experience opportunities and now part of
M2W – voluntary collaboration of large employers,
chaired by Marks and Spencer, committed to providing
work experience opportunities for NEETs.
National investment with the Prince’s
Trust to run pre-employment programmes
for disadvantaged young people. Some
local areas also have their own preemployment programmes.
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Increasing the number
of Health Ambassadors
talking about NHS
Careers in state schools
and colleges.
Ongoing project work
The Sutton Trust and the
Social Mobility Foundation
both work in partnership with
the Medical Schools Council,
running programmes to
support young people from
disadvantaged and
underrepresented groups to
get into medical schools.
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Shape of Caring
The Shape of Caring review includes some
recommendations that link very closely with Talent for
Care. We will be working with the Shape of Caring team
through the engagement process and implementation of
the recommendations that are taken forward, particularly
on Themes 2 and 3, valuing care assistants and widening
access for care assistants to enter the nursing profession.
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