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Quality Assurance in Children’s Residential Settings: Driving Improvement Through Effective Monitoring
Effective quality assurance should do more than confirm whether policies, records, and procedures are in place. Its purpose is to help…
View Training →Life Story Work: Helping Children Understand Their Journey
Effective life story work is much more than creating a book, collecting photographs or developing a timeline of significant events. It…
View Training →Matching Assessments for Safe and Suitable Placements
This seminar explores how to complete robust matching assessments that support safe, suitable, and sustainable placements. Participants will examine the factors…
View Training →Supporting independence through structured learning.
The Supported Learning Independence Programme gives supported accommodation services a structured framework for assessing learning needs, planning key work, supporting learning and evidencing progress.
It connects assessment, practical learning, staff-supported activity and review within one coherent approach.
Explore the Programme →Knowledge matters. What happens in practice matters more.
Social care practice involves much more than knowing the right regulation, policy or procedure. Professionals and organisations need to interpret expectations, exercise judgement and translate knowledge into everyday decisions.
That’s why our work connects professional knowledge, evidence and regulatory expectations with the realities of practice.
About Social Care Skills →From assessment to measurable progress.
The Learning Pathway Assessment helps identify and prioritise learning needs across 100+ statements, creating a clearer basis for planning support and reviewing progress.
Priorities can be ranked and revisited through structured three-month and six-month reviews, helping services evidence development over time.
Explore the Learning Pathway Assessment →Latest from Social Care Skills.
Bring Social Care Skills Training Directly to Your Team
Social Care Skills courses can be delivered directly to your team, in person or via Microsoft Teams. Choose an existing CPD accredited…
Read Article →New Information Sharing Duty: What Changes from 30 September 2026?
Effective safeguarding depends on the right information reaching the right people at the right time. With a new statutory Information Sharing Duty…
Read Article →October Training Programme: New Courses, Practical Learning and Professional Development
Our October Training Programme is now available, bringing together seven seminars covering direct practice, care planning, safeguarding, regulation, inspection, cultural competency and…
Read Article →Opportunities from across social care.
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