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Skills for Care Training Strategy Implementation Funding (England Only)

We regret that there is no comparable funding by Skills for Care's equivalent bodies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

2010/11 Contract

For the ninth year running UKHCA has bid for training funding from Skills for Care. This funding plays a vital role in supporting our member organisations in England to implement their workforce training strategies. Our 2009-10 project is set to receive over £550,000 and we are looking to build on this success.

If we are succesful the 2010/2011 Skills for Care will provide funding for the following:-

  • Common Induction Standard (CIS), Manager Induction Standards, Learning Disability Qualification
  • NVQ Health and Social Care units (a list of eligible units is available). There may be changes to this list during 2010/11 that reflect the introduction of the new Qualification Credit Framework (QCF)
  • Short Courses for First Aid, Food Hygiene, Moving and Handling and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) for Work

The funding is available on a strictly first come first served basis and employers must be in full, current membership of UKHCA.

New Partners

If your organisation wishes to access this funding then it is important that you complete and return the partnership form which can be downloaded by our web site. Where your organisation has more than one office/branch please attach a separate sheet to your partnership form with the name and address and unique NMDS-SC reference code for each office/branch.

The funding is available on a strictly first come first served basis and employers must meet the following criteria:-

  • Be in full, current membership of UKHCA
  • Complete our partnership form - this can be downloaded from our web site or a copy is available from Ailsa Blair 020 8288 1553 or ailsa.blair@ukhca.co.uk or Sharon Hutton on 020 8288 1716 sharon.hutton@ukhca.co.uk.
  • *Have signed up to the National Minimum Data Set-Social Care (NMDS-SC)

*Skills for Care will not fund any claims from those organisations that has not registered on the NMDS-SC web site www.nmds-sc-online.co.uk and obtained a NMDS-SC unique reference code.

Current 2009/10 partners

All organisations that completed a partnership form and were included in our 2009/10 partnership are not required to complete another form. If you are not sure if you are one of our 2009/10 partners please email Ailsa Blair or Sharon Hutton for confirmation ailsa.blair@ukhca.co.uk, sharon.hutton@ukhca.co.uk

NMDS-SC (National Minimum Data Set for Social Care)

Skills for Care will not accept any claims from organisations that have not completed and returned the partnership form and can provide a unique NMDS-SC reference code.

Skills for Care also require all partner organisations to update their organisational record after 1 st April 2010 using www.nmds-sc-online.org.uk. and fully complete individual NMDS-SC worker records for a minimum of 90% of their total workforce (this includes any staff that are not care-providing). In addition individual records for workers completed before 1 April 2010 must be both fully completed and updated.

(Details of the definition of full completion or updating are set out on Appendix B of the National Proposal Forms Guidance)

Your organisation can obtain a unique reference code by completing the questionnaire on line at www.nmds-sc-online.org.uk. NMDS-SC Help Line is 0845 873 0129.

As with any competitive bidding process there is no guarantee that we will be successful or indeed be able to service every organisation's training needs through this route. However, we continue to seek further funding from other sources for all parts of the United Kingdom.

2009/10 Project

This project is now closed.


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