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Take part in the Fair Pay Agreement Consultation for social care
25 Nov 2025 ΢΢²ÝÊÓÆµ
Rose Thomas-Willis, Deputy Director, Adult Social Care Pay and Careers, DHSC and Oonagh Smyth, CEO, ΢΢²ÝÊÓÆµ discuss what the Fair Pay Consult…read more
Policy
What’s happening with integrated working right now
10 Nov 2025 ΢΢²ÝÊÓÆµ
We explore key developments happening with integrated working across adult social care right now. read more
Integration
How your data is helping to shape social care policy
08 Oct 2025 ΢΢²ÝÊÓÆµ
Mark Moulding, Head of External Affairs and Policy, discusses how data shared via ΢΢²ÝÊÓÆµâ€™s Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) is …read more
ASC-WDS
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Moving forward with the Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care
15 Jul 2025 Oonagh Smyth and David Pearson
Oonagh Smyth, CEO, ΢΢²ÝÊÓÆµ and Sir David Pearson, Co-chairs of the Workforce Strategy Oversight Executive Group discuss why the Strategy is vi…read more
Reflecting on One Year of the Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care
24 Jun 2025 Jane Brightman
Jane Brightman, Director of Workforce Development, reflects on the achievements of the Strategy one year since its launch. read more
What do registered managers think about a professional body and workforce registration?
25 Sep 2024 ΢΢²ÝÊÓÆµ
We caught up with our registered manager reference group to discuss their thoughts on suggestions in the Workforce Strategy around workforce registrat…read more
Workforce development
Leadership
An update on the workforce strategy for adult social care
18 Dec 2023 Oonagh Smyth and David Pearson
In October, ΢΢²ÝÊÓÆµ announced plans to develop a workforce strategy for adult social care. Our CEO Oonagh Smyth and Sir David Pearson, who are…read more
How does clinical supervision for nurses support the delegation of healthcare activities
17 Aug 2023 Grace Cook
In this blog from Grace Cook, Resilience-Based Clinical Supervision (RBCS) Programme Manager at the Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS), she shares h…read more
Learning and development
Mentoring
Nursing
What integration means for social care
25 May 2023 Oonagh Smyth
In this joint blog from ΢΢²ÝÊÓÆµ CEO Oonagh Smyth and Director of System and Social Partnership at NHS Employers Rebecca Smith, they discuss wh…read more
How delegating healthcare activities to my PAs has changed my life
24 May 2023 Rob Moriarty
Rob employs personal assistants (PAs) to support him. He tells us how having healthcare activities delegated to his PAs has made his life better. read more
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