Carers Matter – Everybody's Business
Skills for Care and Skills for Health have produced Carers Matter - Everybody's Business guidance to help employers and organisations support carers better through learning and development of staff.
The guidance is based on a set of Common Core Principles for Working with Carers that were developed in consultation with carers, people working directly with carers, and interested parties across health, social care and other key sectors.
Carers Matter - Everybody's Business is not an 'off the shelf' training package, but rather the tools that enable training to be commissioned or developed to reflect local workforce needs, local settings and context. It aims to be flexible enough to be delivered in a variety of ways to meet differing working and learning needs.
The guidance comes in three parts and provides information about:
- who carers are (as distinct from care workers)
- why carers are important
- how you can support the learning and development of your workforce to improve and enhance your services for the people who use them, and their carers.
As part of its development Carers Matter - Everybody's Business was evaluated by fifteen employer sites across England. A newly refreshed version including comments from carers, training managers and learners gained during the evaluation is now available.
Skills for Care has also worked with The Challenging Behaviour Foundation to make sure it reflects the needs of carers of people whose behaviour challenges.
For further information visit: www.skillsforcare.org.uk/cmeb
