Skills for Care Annual Conference 2010

Thursday, 25 February 2010
Hilton Birmingham Metropole

Recruiting and retaining quality staff is one of the key challenges for any employer. Every organisation in our sector needs a skilled and flexible workforce capable of meeting the significant changes to service delivery in the future. This conference will use a mix of expert speakers, interactive workshops and fringe sessions to explore the best ways to recruit more people to adult social care and retain them for the future.

Event Information
Skills for Care estimates that the sector will need a minimum of half a million extra workers by 2025 - up to an extra million if we use a personalisation model - so the conference will also look at how the sector can attract and retain those extra workers.

The conference will examine the vision, context and key drivers for recruitment and retention in social care to develop a clear understanding of how to make the transition to a workforce that is equipped to deliver a wide range of services and meet the challenges of the personalisation agenda.

Key speakers include:

Phil Hope Minister for State for Care Services
David Croisdale-Appleby, Chair, Skills for Care

To book your place, click here, or call: call 0844 880 5061.

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Asset skills - The Public Sector Skills Framework Events

Various - (January - 31 March 2010)

The Public Sector Skills Framework is a new method of training public sector support staff, such as cleaners, porters and care assistants, in customer services and other skills.  To find out more - http://www.assetskills.org/PSSFEvents/

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Skills for Health Workforce Projects Team – Long Term Conditions Conference

Thursday and Friday, 15/16 April 2010
Harrogate International Centre

For further information, see - http://www.managinglongtermconditions.com

The Workforce Projects Team is leading the way in producing a range of resources to fully support integrated workforce planning in long term conditions.

These resources, together with a conference DVD highlighting them were showcased at the highly successful Managing Long Term Conditions conference in Harrogate on 7th April 2009. WPT led the work stream 'creating a workforce to support long term conditions' delivering several presentations throughout the day and exhibiting resources in the main conference hall.

Keep an eye on the long term conditions section of the healthcare workforce portal to discover the latest news and resources, together with further workforce planning, information and tools - http://www.healthcareworkforce.nhs.uk/longtermconditions.html.

NHS East of England is offering up to £300,000 per project for proposals supporting innovation in service delivery to people with long term conditions - news item.

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NHS BME Network Launch Conference

Friday, 4 June 2010
London Hilton Park Lane

For information about the launch event - http://www.nationalnhsbmenetwork.org.uk/site

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