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CAWD training provider event October 2012 www.cawd.org.uk Welcome • Introductions • Domestics • Format for the afternoon – two presentations and three ‘speed date’ sessions • 9.15am Registration and Refreshments • 9.30am Welcome to CAWD • 9.40am Key Note Speech - ‘Changes and challenges in Social Care’ • 9.55am QCF flexibilities offering solutions for employers • 10.25am Speed date 1 – Your role in WDF/Dementia/Other Funds • 10.45am Coffee Break • 11.05am Speed date 2 – Resources to assist you in supporting employers • 11.25am Speed date 3 – What are the training requirements in social care? • 11.50am Final thoughts and close • A partnership of social care employers and other interested stakeholders working together to support and improve workforce development in York and North Yorkshire • Set up in 2009 with funding from Skills for Care, then the Joint Improvement Partnership CAWD partners • Avalon, City of York Council (WDU), Craven College (tyro), Human Support Group Reable, Job Centre Plus, Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, Independent Care Group, North Yorkshire County Council (HAS), Hull University (Scarborough), Selby College, Skills for Care, Wilf Ward Family Trust, Vida Healthcare, Your Consortium Ltd What does CAWD do? • Provides information and resources through the website, events, promotions, bursaries, supported training opportunities, free e-learning • Promotes social care as a career (Care Ambassadors, close links with Job Centre Plus, Schools, Colleges) to support recruitment • Writes funding bids to bring in additional funds to sub region • Engages with employers to listen and find out what they need, then responds CAWD’s new website! • Re-designed and re-launched this week • Hopes to be: useful and relevant, easier to use and navigate, up to date • On ‘facebook’ – so we can quickly alert employers to news, opportunities or changes… • Visit - www.cawd.org.uk – and check it out! Homepage www.cawd.org.uk So back to why we’re here today…. • We all want quality care and support for citizens in York and North Yorkshire • Crucial to providing that quality is our social care workforce - are they competent, skilled, capable? • As training providers you have an important role and can make a significant contribution to this • Currently there are changes a plenty! and challenging times ahead for social care…. Key Note speech • Please welcome Steve Liddle from the Wilf Ward Family Trust (WWFT) to share with us the ‘Changes and Challenges in Social Care’ Presentation • Welcome Barry Fyfield, from the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) to talk about the role of LSIS, the Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) and how it’s flexibilities can offer solutions for employers Speed dating – the instructions! • You will have been given a colour badge on arrival • Ist find the colour table that matches your badge (that is where you start!) • After each ‘date’ you will be told to move on and pointed to the next table • Each of you will attend 3 ‘dates’ • After 1st date, there is a coffee break • After last ‘date’ come back to your seat here Final thoughts and close.. • Thank you for attending • Please complete the evaluation forms • Safe journey home….