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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…
Information and news for Social Care Workers
Welcome to our web pages for social care workers.
New online services for applicants, registrants and employers
The Care Council has launched new online services for those currently registered, those applying for registration and social care employers. The services are available by choosing the MyCareCouncil option on this website. In trials, users have said the new system is ‘extremely useful and very accessible’, ‘easy-to-use and very secure’.
Read more about the new online services
MyCareCouncil for social care workers
Profile of residential child care managers and workers in Wales
This is the third profile of its kind and is based on data from the Register during June this year. It also reflects changes in this part of the workforce between July 2011 and June 2012.
Profile of residential child care managers and workers in Wales
Raising Standards in Social Care – a report on the professional regulatory work of the Care Council for Wales 2011–2012
The Care Council’s fourth overview report of how it is contributing to raising standards through its regulatory work is now available.
Raising Standards in Social Care
Easy Read Code of Practice
We’ve just published a new easy read Code of Practice which is available to download or in hard copy format. The Code was developed by VoiceAbility who worked with a learning disabilities easy-read translation team.
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