The National Skills Academy for Social Care is bringing forward plans to become self-funding through employer membership fees in order to safeguard its future. The academy was launched in October 2009 ...

Social care employers should be wary of training providers claiming to offer accredited learning materials on the Care Certificate, Skills for Care has warned. The workforce development body said it ...

A new National Skills Academy for Social Care has been launched by the government, which aims to train and raise the status of social care workers. The new academy will lead training for 35,000 ...

The government has approved the formation of a national social care skills academy to improve management training in the sector. It is now in the development stage and joins a network of 15 other ...