KNOWLEDGE IS POWER How improved workforce intelligence can support funding for Social Care

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KNOWLEDGE IS POWERHow improved workforce
intelligence can support funding for Social Care

• 22 November 2006

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Outline of Session

• Welcome and Introductions
• Sources of Funding and How to Get Your Hands On
  it
• Skills for Care Funding
• Train to Gain
• Local Authority Funding
• Overview of the National Minimum Data Set for
  Social Care (nmds-sc) and the rationale behind
  data collection
• Short DVD
• Question and Answer Session
• Support Available from Skills for Care

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Skills for Care

• Employer led organisation responsible for
  development of adult social care workforce in
  England
• Part of the UK-wide Sector Skills Council for
  Care and Development
• Structured regionally through Regional Committee
  that are made up of employers and other
  stakeholders within social care sector.

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What we do

• Work in consultation with stakeholders to
  modernise adult social care in England by
  ensuring qualifications and standards continually
  adapt to meet the changing needs of people who
  use care services by
• Developing national standards and a
  qualifications framework for the sector
• Collecting skills data and researching issues
  affecting carers and people who use care services
• Creating a national workforce development
  strategy
• Building employer-led regional support networks
  liaise with health, local government and training
  and education providers at local regional and
  national level
• More information can be found on our work and
  projects on the Skills for Care Website
  www.skillsforcare.org.uk and also on regional
  site www.skillsforcare-yh.org.uk

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Skills for Care Y H Priorities for 2006/07

• Collection of Skills and Workforce Intelligence
  via National Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
• Support recruitment and retention by promoting
  schemes such as Care Ambassadors, Development of
  14-19 Diploma, Investors in People etc
• Support Leadership and Management Development eg
  equipping managers with practical information on
  workforce development
• Promoting National Occupational Standards such as
  Common Induction Standards and NVQs
• Support development of in-house assessors for
  NVQs and social work degree
• Work alongside other partners e.g. Business Link
  to provide information and advice to employers on
  a range of workforce development
• Providing funding to support the development of
  the workforce through TSI Funding

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The Local Picture

• Skills for Care has been piloting skills
  brokerage services in three out of 4 sub-regions
  in Yorkshire and The Humber (under contract to
  the Learning and Skills Council) since 2003.
• Success of pilot has led to national roll out of
  sector skills brokerages on a regional basis.
• Regional brokerage Train to Gain delivered by
  Business Link from August 2006
• Skills for Care YH working closely with Business
  Link to support employers in region.

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Fundingfriend or foe?

• Lets face it.its a bit of a maze!
• Confusion about where to go and how to get hold
  of it!
• Too complicated
• Short-term and subject to availability
• Employers are confused about where to go for
  unbiased help and advice
• Regionally Skills for Care have a role to ensure
  that employers maximise funding available and are
  working alongside new regional brokerage service
  Train to Gain to support this.

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So whats out there and how do I get a hold of it?

• Two Leaflets in Your Pack
• Funding Support for Social Care Workforce
• Summary of Funding
• Leaflets will be updated regularly and available
  from Skills for Care Regional Office 01904 461050
  or from the regional website www.skillsforcare-yh.
  org.uk

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Skills For Care TSI Funding

• Funded by Department of Health
• 15m to support the implementation of National
  Minimum Standards
• Approx 769k for Yorkshire and Humberside
• Paid at 75 per eligible unit
• Funding available on first come basis
• Accessed through sub-regional employer
  partnerships.

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Train to Gain

• Service operated by Business Link
• Provision of impartial information advice and
  signposting and referral on training and
  development.
• Funding prioritised for small and medium sized
  employers employing between 5-249
• For whole workforce not just care staff and
  designed to give people opportunity to achieve
  first full level 2 qualification
• May be possible in some cases to fund Level 3
  qualifications
• Employer wage subsidy available for employers
  with less than 50 employees

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Local Authorities

• National Training Strategy Grant (NTSG)
• To support the training of the social care
  workforce across the statutory and independent
  sectors.
• NYCC NTSG Funding used to fund a number of NVQs
  and remainder given as cash to individual
  employers (contracted providers only)
• CYC NTSG Funding used to fund a wide range of
  training. Training available publicised through
  regular calendar of training. Also give access
  to a range of distance learning and on-line
  learning materials (contracted providers only).

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The Future for funding

• Currently lots of different pots of funding
  coming into the sector (many fund same or similar
  types of training whilst other training needs
  attract no funding from anywhere).
• Many funding sources only guaranteed for one year
  at a time which makes workforce planning
  difficult for many employers e.g. TSI
• Squeeze on level of funding coming into the
  sector..highly likely that more financial
  commitment will be expected from employers in
  future.
• Funding currently accessed by employers does not
  reflect actual needwe believe

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.but truth is we dont actually know!!!!
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National Minimum Data Set Social Care (nmds-sc)
Job Roles
Questionnaire Help
OrganisationalQuestionnaire
Employee Questionnaire(s)
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The Vision

• nmds-sc is.
• A single source of collecting information that
  provides Skills for Care with the ability to
  influence strategic planning and resource
  allocation on behalf of all employers in the
  social care sector

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We dont have good data.

• Make decisions based on incomplete knowledge
• Our jigsaw is incomplete.hard to see the full
  picture
• We can change this
• Central role of agreed data sets that will allow
  us to report on the sectors workforce and predict
  future skill and resource needs

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Why we need to plan/pool data

• Increase in demand for social care services
  resulting in an expanding workforce
• High employment competition for staff
• Identify image and status
• Uncertainty about the future

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Whats in it for me?

• Help you identify skill needs
• Provide the basis for staff development plan
• Help with recruitment and retention
• Provide skills for care with the information that
  will enable them to influence key strategic
  bodies to increase and better target funding into
  the sector based on comprehensive data.
• Receive a personal profile that allows you to
  benchmark your establishment against other
  similar services within your region and compare
  information, data and trends

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nmds-sc

• One vision all collecting the same information
  (public/private sector)
• It is envisaged that the nmds-sc will replace all
  other forms of workforce surveys e.g. SSD001
• nmds-sc has support from Department of Health,
  Department for Education and Skills, ADSS,CSCI,
  GSCC, SCIE etc

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Who wants this data?

• Skills for Care
• Skills for Care and Development
• Childrens Workforce Development Council
• CSCI
• Employers
• Service Users

• Learning and Skills Councils
• Government Departments e.g DfES, DoH
• NHS
• Local Authorities
• Regional Development Agencies

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RAISING THE PROFILE OF THE CARE SECTOR POSITIVELY
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Contacts

• Angela Thompson Regional Project Lead
• Tel [phone]
• Mob [phone]
• angela.thompson_at_skillsforcare.org.uk

• Sally Gretton
• Regional Development Manager
• Tel [phone]
• Mob [phone]
• sally.gretton_at_skillsforcare.org.uk

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Question and Answer Session
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Support Available

• Series of roadshows with ICG raising awareness of
  nmds and offering practical support.
• Scarborough 13 December (other dates
  localities to follow in Jan/Feb 07)
• Telephone helpline 01904 461050
• Practical support from advisor holding local
  surgeries in w/c 11 December 2006