National

Skills for Health have produced two Funding Guides, one for Employers and one for Individuals. Alterntively, go to the Skills for Health website.

The Skills for Care Resources and Funding Guide for Workforce Development in Adult Social Care  - click here for a copy. Following publication of this guide, Skills for Care have produced an on-line version which facilitates searches by organisation, service required (information and guidance, materials and resources, training support and funding and support) and area of interest, e.g. business development. To access the SfC searchable funding guide tool, click here.

Regional

The East of England Funding Guide was updated in April 2009 and is now a supplement to the 2 Skills for Health UK Funding Guides (see above). This document includes information about how the Joint Investment Fund (JIF) operates in the Region and who to contact. Click here to access the East of England guide.

Some Other Sources / Developments

• Train to Gain (Web link:  http://traintogain.gov.uk).  For more detailed advice for brokers / employers facing staff on the new flexibilities, click here.  For East of England Train to Gain contact details, click here. 
  
• Social Enterprise Business Support Grants of up to £1,500 to fund the cost of consultancy. For further information, see Business Link - Support for Social.
• Personal Health Budgets – Following High Quality Care for All, the Department of Health invited pilot sites through Personal health budgets: first steps (January 2009). It is thought that 3m people out of 16m with long term conditions may eventually be interested in some sort of personal budget. To find out about the latest developments refer to the Department of Health’s Personal Health Budgets webpage. For information on a new study to examine the benefits of Personal Health Budgets, see DH study or access the Personal Health Budget Learning Network.

Further Information

For further information, including cost benefit analysis research, see: Resource Guide Section 7 - Funding Sources (July 2009).