WHO WE ARE: Skills for Care.
We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.
We provide managers and those involved in the delivery of social care with guidance to help best support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture.
Our vision is of a fair and just society where people can access the advice, care and support they need to live life to the fullest.
We are currently reviewing the Dementia-Core-Skills-Education-and-Training-Framework.pdf.
This work has been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care in support of the health and adult social care workforces.
We’d want to ensure that we include the voice of people with Dementia in this piece of work.
We’re looking for people with lived experience of Dementia and health and adult social provision.
The project has started now and will progress over the summer months, with view a to a revised framework by the end of the year.
Project activity will mainly take place remotely, telephone and teams.
Initially we are looking for representation within a defined steering group-this will be 3/4 2 hour meetings over the summer period. We can also look to establish other meetings as needed/preferred in support.
More information is below but if you want to offer your expertise contact Sally at
| Who specifically do you want to be involved? |
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| We’re looking for people with lived experience of Dementia and health and adult social provision. |
| When will the project take place? |
| The project has started now and will progress over the summer months, with view a to a revised framework by the end of the year. |
| Where will the project take place? |
| Project activity will mainly take place remotely, telephone and teams. |
| How long will people be involved for? |
| Initially we are looking for representation within a defined steering group-this will be 3/4 2 hour meetings over the summer period.We can also look to establish other meetings as needed/preferred in support. |
| How many people with dementia do you want to involve? |
| We’re looking to gain collective representation, however are open to suggestions are happy to meet individually with people. |
| Short description: |
| To help us ensure that the training standards will support the workforce to provide the highest quality of care and support. |
| What kind of support is available? |
| We can speak individually to people. We will aim to ensure information is accessible. We can provide a single point of contact. |
| Who will be doing the administration? |
| Skills for Care |
| What kind of expenses are available? |
| Yes, we can support expenses and have a participation policy. |
| Have you got a budget to pay for refreshments and venue hire as well as transport? |
| N/A as activity is likely to be carried out remotely, we can support this budget if needed and we do meet in person. |
| How will you make sure that people’s information is kept safe or anonymous? |
| Contributions will be treated in confidence and processed by Skills for Care in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR). No personal information will be provided to anyone beyond the Skills for Care team conducting the activity unless we are required to share information due to a safeguarding issue being raised. Any reports will be based on combined data only, unless you give us separate explicit consent to use your quotes, and will not contain any personal information. Any personal data collected will be disposed of within 24 months of the close of the piece of work. |
| Have you got relevant ethical approval for research projects? |
| Yes |
| Are you or your organisation going to profit financially or otherwise? |
| This work is funded by the Department of Health Social Care to support the health and care workforces. |
| How will you let people know what has happened because of their involvement? |
| Regular feedback will be given as the review progresses. |
| When will you be able to report back about progress on the project? |
| Regular feedback will be given as the review progress, a summary report will also be provided. |
