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ASC Provider Briefing - 28 July 2023
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Dear Care Provider Colleagues,
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Welcome to this week's briefing.
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This week in the briefing: an animation about the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training and a draft code of practice, an invitation to take part in a study, Skills for Care's Size and Structure of the Adult Social Care Workforce Report, the Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report and Strategy, a bulletin from Aging Well and Falls Prevention, and a resource of the SASP Active Aging offer, a last call for participation in Good Care Month, and some Good Care News reported in the BBC, and the Agenda for next week's Care Provider Learning and Engagement meeting, as well as the usual event reminders.
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Please find the latest news and updates from Adult Social Care below:
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Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism
We are pleased to share a powerful new animation about The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism: watch animation.
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Please share this with your key stakeholders.
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The animation has been co-designed and co-produced with autistic people and people with a learning disability. It is aimed at helping staff and employers across health and social care to understand Oliver’s Training and why it is so vitally important.
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The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism aims to provide the health and social care workforce with the right skills and knowledge to provide safe, compassionate and informed care to autistic people and people with a learning disability. This requirement is set out in the Health and Care Act 2022.
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The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training is the government’s preferred and recommended training for health and social care staff. It has been co-produced, co-evaluated and is co-delivered by people with a learning disability and autistic people who are paid for their time.
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It was named after Oliver McGowan, whose death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better training. 400,000 people have already completed part one of the training and the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. “The most powerful elearning I’ve done in my 20-year career.”
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Draft code of practice consultation launched
This week, the government has also launched a consultation on a new draft Oliver McGowan Code of Practice, which outlines how health and care providers who are registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) can meet the legislative requirement introduced by the Health and Care Act 2022 to ensure staff receive training on learning disability and autism, appropriate to their role.
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The public consultation on the draft code of practice will run for 12 weeks. Following this, the government will consider all consultation responses to inform any final changes to the draft Code of Practice.
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Take part in a study to tackle funding related issues across Adult Social Care
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A study is being conducted on behalf of the NHS and local government councils across the Southwest to help us gain funding that tackle problems across the Adult Social Care (ASC) sector, we would be grateful for your views and opinions on what the focus should be. Please take a couple of minutes to answer this brief survey and tell us your thoughts. This is designed for all those that work in ASC; all care providers, charity workers, Council staff, NHS/ICS staff. Please feel free to pass this on to colleagues and providers.
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The ‘Size and structure of the adult social care workforce in England’ report:
July 2023
Skills for Care is pleased to be able to share with you headlines from our Size and structure of the adult social care workforce in England report.
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You can find the full report on our web site
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- The number of filled posts - roles with a person working in them - increased by around 1% (20,000) between April 2022 and March 2023. The previous year, the number of filled posts fell for the first time on record, by around 4% (60,000).
- At the same time, the vacancy rate decreased to 9.9%, or around 152,000 on any given day, compared with 10.6% (around 164,000) the previous year.
- Some employers are using international recruitment to help them address recruitment and retention challenges, with around 70,000 people recruited from abroad into direct care-providing roles after adult social care was added to the Shortage Occupation List in February 2022.
- The total number of filled posts in adult social care in 2022-3 was estimated at 1.635 million. These posts were filled by 1.52m people which is 5.2% of the total workforce in England, and more than the number of people working in the NHS, schools or food and drink manufacturing.
We are grateful to all the social care providers who update their data in the ASC-WDS online system. Without those contributions, the data we include in the report wouldn’t be possible.
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This newest report comes ahead of Skills for Care’s more detailed ‘State of the adult social care workforce in England’ report which will be released in October. If you would like to know more about our data and whether we could provide you with more tailored reporting please contact analysis@skillsforcare.org.uk
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Somerset Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report
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Aging Well and Falls Prevention Bulletin
New Look Timetables
We are delighted to launch Age UK Somerset’s ‘new look’ timetables which are easier to follow and have been updated with the new exercise classes in your area. Please find the PDFs attached and if you would like these in any other format, don’t hesitate to ask.
You can also find our up-to-date timetable and the printable versions here: Timetable of exercise classes | Age UK Somerset
Getting Stronger
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Our Falls Prevention service has launched a Strong & Steady class in Westonzoyland, near Bridgwater. These sessions follow a specially developed evidence-based programme which help to prevent damaging falls by strengthening lower body muscles, improving your balance and increasing participants confidence in moving around.
For more information visit: Stay Strong, Stay Steady sessions (ageuk.org.uk)
Time for Tai Chi
A new Tai Chi QiGong class has started in Mudford, near Yeovil. This gentle class uses mindful movements for physical and mental wellbeing. Held on Tuesdays at 11:30am at Mudford Village Hall, BA21 5TE- view the poster here.
And soon we are launching a new Tai Chi session in session in West Monkton Village Hall, near Taunton, on Thursday afternoons. More details to come!
We would be delighted if you were able to share our news with any colleagues or clients who may be interested, and please do let us know if you would like any graphics or copy for your social media.
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SASP Active Aging Health and Wellbeing Programmes Resource
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Please view this resource to see all the programmes available to help older adults and those living with health conditions to move more and live longer better.
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Reminder: Technology Enabled Care in Somerset
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Somerset Council are looking for people aged 18+ to help them design Technology Enabled Care (TEC) services in Somerset.
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You can also contact us directly via silcshepton@somerset.gov.uk. If you have any questions or want to book via the telephone, please phone Julian Bellew on 07977 411274.
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We will send you further details of the event once your place is confirmed.
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Last call to participate: Good Care Month!
To celebrate Good Care Month, Proud to Care Somerset are sharing stories about our brilliant carers in Somerset.
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Somerset Good Care Work in the News
This week, BBC ran a story highlighting our new strategy to support people living in their own homes and a case study of a woman named Grace. Grace recently turned 105, and thanks to support from an occupational therapist, celebrated this milestone birthday with family and friends in her own home, sitting up in a chair.
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Events
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August Learning and Engagement Meeting
We hope you will join us on Tuesday at the next Care Provider Learning Engagement Meeting.
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Please put name and where you are from in the chat box, also contact details if you are happy to share with the wider audience.
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- 2:05pm Chris Hamilton – MCA
- 3:00pm Jonathon Davies – Restore2 min training session for home care
- 3:45pm Megan and Rose – mini thickener training session
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Opportunity for audience to share updates and ask questions.
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Transference of care discussion and future topics in the LEM - 2023 suggestions
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Upcoming Event and Training Reminders
- Free Mental Health training for the Learning Disability Social Care workforce available.
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Taunton Campus of Bridgwater & Taunton College on the 7th of August.
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- DBS Webinars for Adult Social Care, various dates. Details on Eventbrite.
- Basic Dysphagia Awareness Training, Various dates. Details on PEN.
- St Margaret's Hospice - Training for Care Professionals. 30th November, details on PEN.
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Please continue to share or promote these briefings and our webpage to others in your organisations.
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Our incident room mailbox and contact details (see below) remain operational during core working hours so please get in touch if you have any urgent concerns or queries, we can look to assist you with.
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Somerset’s Provider Engagement Team
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