ADASS – Spring Seminar 2015

Workforce Development:Changing Care, Changing

Culture

Sharon Allen, Annie Hudson, Lyn Romeo

Culture

The Three C’s

Care Act

Care Certificate

CQC

Culture

Lyn Romeo Chief Social Worker

• Policy and legislative drivers

• Changing expectations of Social Workers

• What’s necessary for step changes

• Tackling the barriers to change

Annie HudsonThe College of Social Work

• Shifting professional identities …

• Integration and leadership

• CPD – what’s needed?

• Employer standards: embedding?

Discussion

• What is our biggest challenge?

• What does ‘great’ workforce development look like (in parsimonious times)?

• How/where best invest across the sector?

• How well are national bodies supporting you?