Category: SCSkills Updates
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Two New Courses Launching This June at Social Care Skills
Across children’s homes, supported accommodation, and leaving care services, professionals are increasingly expected to balance compliance, safeguarding, relationship-based practice, and outcomes-focused support. Two areas continue to create significant challenges for providers and practitioners alike: responding effectively when young people go missing, and developing pathway plans that genuinely prepare young people…
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June 2026 Training Programme: Now Open
June is packed with practical, inspection-focused sessions designed to support professionals across social care to strengthen practice, improve oversight, and feel more confident in day-to-day delivery. Whether you’re preparing for Ofsted, developing your team, or refining key areas of practice, these sessions are built around what actually happens on the…
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Getting Annex A Right Before Your Next Ofsted Inspection
As part of our Social Care Updates Series, we are delivering two short, practical sessions designed to help you complete Annex A with confidence. Each session focuses on the specific requirements of your provision, ensuring the guidance is relevant and easy to apply.
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Ofsted Updates to the Social Care Common Inspection Framework: What Providers Need to Know in 2026
While the Social Care Common Inspection Framework (SCCIF) remains the core structure for inspections, the latest updates and wider reform programme highlight a clear direction of travel: inspections are becoming more impact-focused, nuanced, and aligned with the realities of children’s lives and complex care needs.
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Strengthening Safeguarding Responses to County Lines and Serious Youth Violence
For providers, the message is clear. Safeguarding in this context is not an additional responsibility, it is central to the role. Those who are able to combine strong relational practice with confident multi-agency engagement will be best placed to support young people effectively and meet the expectations of an increasingly…
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Introducing the Supported Learning Independence Programme
Supporting young people to develop independence is one of the most important responsibilities for organisations working across children’s homes, supported accommodation and other services supporting young people. Yet many providers continue to face the same challenge: how to ensure that key work around independence is consistent, purposeful and clearly evidenced,…
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April Training Calendar: New Sessions for Social Care Professionals
April brings a new series of online seminars designed to support professionals working across social care. Whether you are part of a management team, a frontline practitioner, or responsible for safeguarding and compliance within your service, these sessions provide practical guidance on some of the key challenges facing the sector.
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Our March Training Calendar is Now Live: Book Your Place Today
March brings a carefully designed programme of practical, regulation-informed training to support professionals working across children’s homes, supported accommodation, fostering and wider care services.
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Introducing Sector Opportunities on Social Care Skills
Social Care Skills is pleased to introduce Sector Opportunities, a new space on our website designed to support connection, collaboration, and visibility across children’s and adults’ social care.
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Supporting Children and Vulnerable Adults Through the Holidays
For many people, the festive season is associated with celebration, connection, and joy. In social care, we know the reality is often far more complex. For children and vulnerable adults, Christmas and other holidays can amplify feelings of loss, uncertainty, grief, and exclusion rather than comfort and happiness.