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17 Jun Social Care Week Social Care Week is an opportunity to focus on the workers who provide vital social care services that support more than 150,000 people every day here in Wales. Around 88,000 social workers and social care workers provide these services, but this work often goes unnoticed. more…
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21 Jun Social Care Accolades Preparations are well underway for this year's Social Care Accolades which will be awarded in a special ceremony on 21 June in Cardiff City Hall. more…
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27 Jun Social Services and Well-being: Creating tomorrow's care today The ADSS Cymru Annual conference is the premier showcase for those involved in the delivery of social services to children, families and adults. It is the main networking event in the Social Services calendar in Wales. more…
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26 Jun National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Commissioning, Procurement and Contracting Focus Groups The National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Commissioning, Procurement and Contracting are being reviewed this year. The Care Council for Wales will be holding 3 focus groups across Wales in late June/early July to gather feedback on some draft NOS. more…
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17 Jul Next steps for integrating health and social care services in Wales This seminar focuses on next steps for integrating primary and secondary care services in Wales. more…
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3 Oct Next steps for End of Life and palliative care in Wales This seminar will bring together key policymakers from the National Assembly and Welsh Government with stakeholders - including Local Health Boards, NHS Wales, hospices, charities and patient groups - to consider implementation issues arising from the National End of Life Care Delivery Plan, due for release in summer 2013. more…
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18 Jun New app supports managers to carry out effective workplace supervision and appraisals A new bilingual mobile app to support managers and supervisors in social care to carry out effective staff supervision and appraisals has been launched by the Care Council. This is the first mobile app to be launched in Social Care Week. more…
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17 Jun Digital Information Boost for Social Care Workers in Wales A series of bilingual mobile applications and e-books are being launched from today to give frontline social care workers in Wales a digital route to information to support their work. more…
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14 Jun Domiciliary Care Worker Suspended from the Register Claire Eileen Davies, formerly employed by Wrexham County Borough Council, was found to have breached the Code of Practice for Social Care Workers by neglecting the service user during her homecare visit. more…
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5 Jun Celebrate VQ Day and Get Involved! Today is the sixth annual Vocational Qualification (VQ) day. Launched in 2008, VQ day recognises the millions of talented and skilled people throughout the UK who are awarded vocational qualifications. more…
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5 Jun Care Council Board Update At its most recent meeting, members of the Care Council Board discussed three areas of its work which will have an important bearing on current and future training and development of the social care workforce in Wales. The initiatives will contribute to developing the new professionalism among social care practitioners, which will be essential to achieving the Welsh Government’s vision of citizen-led, sustainable social services. more…
Education and Learning
Current priorities and activities
A key message in the policy document Sustainable Social Services for Wales: A Framework for Action (Welsh Government, 2011) is the need for professional, competent, confident and safe managers and workers to provide excellent, front line social services.
The Care Council has responded by establishing a dedicated work programme with the overall aim of developing the social work workforce. In 2012 – 13 the priorities for this work programme include:
- consultation on the Continuing Professional Education and Learning Framework (CPEL) linked to the career structure for the social work profession in Wales and the implementation of the CPEL framework;
- scoping a programme of work on the professional governance framework for social work;
- development of the social services practitioner role;
- completion of the review of the rules for the social work degree and publication of new rules