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Stop Press 10th November 2008

Charges for additional entries on the new website are contained in downloads under SCA.
Providers please notify SCA of the email address you wish to use so we can activate your webpage..

DON'T FORGET TO BOOK YOUR PLACE AT THE SCA AUTUMN CONFERENCE

The SCA Autumn Conference will be held on 19th November at The Leatherhead Leisure Centre.

Don't miss the opportunity to hear from key speakers:
Justine Wilson, UK Border Agency - 'An Overview of the Points Based System'
Maria Zealey, Surrey Welfare Rights Unit - 'Incapacity reform - carrot or stick for disabled people ?'
Adrian Hughes, CSCI - on their latest developments
Ian Davey, interim director, SCC - 'Adult Social Care in Surrey County Council'
Julie Fisher, Head of Procurement, SCC - 'A partnership approach to Procurement'
Henry Harris, Partner at Edward Symmons - 'Investing in Care - do the numbers stack up?'
There will also be a wide range of exhibitors, giving guidance and advice on the services they have to offer.

Please find attached the full programme and registration form.

Lisa
on behalf of:

Surrey Care Association Ltd
PO Box 320, Leatherhead
Surrey, KT22 2BG

Mobile: 07779 584397
Email: Lisa.Mack@surreycare.org.uk
Or LisaMack1@aol.com
Web site: www.surreycare.org.uk

"Supporting Social Care Providers in Surrey"

STOP PRESS 5th Nov 2008 Surrey University are hosting a free workshop on Looking to the Future -

‘high quality work force to meet patient needs’. This is being run with the PCT and NHS so could be of great interest to providers, particularly those in nursing homes.

Places need to be booked by 19th November. Booking form under Downloads.

Stop Press 5th Nov 2008

All employers involved in the Recruitment Drive at the shopping centres or open days or following up with leads are invited to a Debrief session at 1 pm on 24th Nov at Leatherhead Golf Club – let Jenni.Turner@surreycare.org.uk know if you are attending please. The plan is to learn lessons for next time. We have over 350 really good leads which are currently being processed.

Stop Press 5th Nov 2008

URGENT new website going live this month. We have discovered many of the emails we hold are personal ones not business ones so we are asking providers to email us at sca@surreycare.org.uk with the business email you want to use to activate your services webpage so you can upload your information. We have enlisted admin help to call providers if we don’t hear – but once your page is activated you will then need to populate your page. When we go live we will be giving this site a lot of publicity so make sure you are on there as soon as possible.

30th October 2008

Adult Social Care Grant Claim forms etc are now avaialable from the Funding page on this site.

Stop Press 28th Oct 2008
A copy of the recent CSCI Adult Services Inspection Report is available in downloads under Resources

31st October 2009

NTSG Training Programme Update - STOP PRESS -

Phase 1 Programme

Please note that we still have availability on the following courses featured in the NTSG Phase 1 programme:

6th Nov, 1pm-5pm Negotiation Skills (2 places)

13th Nov, 9am-5pm Time Management (5 places)

27th Nov, 9am-5pm Change Management (9 places)

2nd Dec, 9am-5pm Making Teams Work (1 place)

12th Dec, 9am-5pm Team Building (3 places)

PLEASE NOTE ALL OTHER COURSES FEATURED IN PHASE 1 ARE NOW FULL. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT ANY FURTHER APPLICATION FORMS FOR PHASE 1 COURSES APART FROM THOSE LISTED ABOVE.

We have the following additional courses available with places funded by NTSG :

H & S Introduction
Date: Thursday 6th November
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue: Prospects L & D centre / Head Office, The Hethersett Centre, RNIB College, Philanthropic Road
Redhill, RH1 4DG
3 places available

Moving & Handling (Novice)
Date: Thursday 13th November
Time: 10am - 4:30pm
Venue: Prospects L & D centre / Head Office, The Hethersett Centre, RNIB College, Philanthropic Road
Redhill, RH1 4DG
1 places available

Moving & Handling (Novice)
Date: Wednesday 10th December
Time : 10am - 4:30pm
Venue: Prospects L & D centre / Head Office, The Hethersett Centre, RNIB College, Philanthropic Road
Redhill, RH1 4DG
6 places available

If you would like to secure a place on one of the additional courses mentioned above, please confirm via email to ntsg@btinternet.com and ensure that the Subject Title is marked as 'ADDITIONAL NTSG COURSES AVAILABLE', and include details of which courses you would like to book places. Please note that an application form, declaration form and 'Other Information Sheet' will still need to be completed and returned to NTSG Administration, C/O Briar Dene, Guildford Road, Runfold Nr Farnham Surrey GU10 1PW.

Please note that places will be offered on a first come first served basis. An email address most be provided for pre-joining instructions to be emailed.

15th October 2008

Various Courses Available from Joint Training Board
If you wish to apply for a place on this training please complete the Joint Training Booking Form and return to:
E mail: surreyjointtraining@surreypct.nhs.uk

Surrey Health & Social Care Joint Training Partnership
Surrey PCT, Cedar Court, Guildford Road, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 9AE
Tel: 01372 201739 (24hr Voicemail) Fax: 01372 201899

Lots available see downloads for flier

Please Note:
19th September 2008 Weycare Liquidators

Any enquiries for Weycare / Weyforward Initiatives should be directed to the liquidators:
Marks Bloom, attention A J Whelan 60/62 Old London Road, Kingston upon Thames KT2 6QZ 020 8549 9951 email insolvency@marksbloom.co.uk

SCA are not in a position to offer advice

STOP PRESS 11th Sept 2008
News on funding for Childrens Services for NVQ3 (replaces Skills for care funding arrangements from April 2008)

CWDC is very pleased to be able to give you further information on how the TSI funding is being deployed for children's social care. Details are at:

https://secure.cwdcouncil.org.uk/tsi/files/TSI%20System%20User%20Manual%20-%20Employers.pdf

(if the link fails to work please copy above into your browser) or try:

http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/tsi-guidance

You will note at the bottom of the webpage that CWDC plans to test the new system for two weeks in October before its full launch. If you are an employer interested in taking part in the test, or have any further questions about the Increasing Skills in Social Care (TSI) project, please contact Beverley Wilson at CWDC on 0113 386 2268 or email Beverley.wilson@cwdcouncil.org.uk

STOP PRESS 16th August 2008
New AQAA forms now available – Save time preparing your AQAA NMDS records can now be used.
Updated and improved CSCI AQAA forms are now available through the CSCI website. If you have completed both parts (organisation and employee) of the SfC National Minimum Dataset for Social Care (NMDS-SC) you do not need to fill in the Appendix. The NMDS-SC Workforce report for your service can be downloaded from the NMDS-SC Online website and will provide the information that CSCI requires and you can leave the Appendix blank.

http://www.nmds-sc-online.org.uk/Get.aspx

(if link fails to work - copy into your browser)
If you haven’t yet completed NMDS online contact Jenni on 01372 824248 and ask for free assistance.

Stop Press 13th August 2008

Affinity Training goes to the Wall (extract from Guid2Care)
Major NVQ training provider, Affinity Training Limited, has been put into administration after going bust.
Hundreds of UK Care Operators and International students, will lose fees paid in advance for NVQ training in Health and Social Care.

NVQ official awarding body OCR (Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations) confirmed today that Affinity Training Ltd had ceased trading and had been put into “administration”, a technical term which basically means the company can no longer pay its creditors and is now under the control of an administrator or insolvency practitioner.

A spokesperson for the Administrators, Leonard Curtis said:

“Affinity Training has ceased trading and the assets have been transferred to a third party, and students (creditors) have little or no chance of recovering any fees paid to Affinity.”

You can contact the Birmingham based Administrators on 0121 200 2111.

You can read more on the Guide2Care website

http://www.guide2care.com/careproviders/news2008/august/1.html

Note from SCA – SCA have recently developed a quality training provider benchmark for Surrey providers to enable employers to check that the provider they use meets those standards. SCA market our own Surrey Train to Gain contract using established local providers who form our SCA Consortium.

RNCC update from SCC 29 July 2008

SCA through the Chairman Mike Roycroft and Board Directors made representation to SCC on the “clawback” of the RNCC payment. We have now received a letter advising of a change of decision for the period October 2007 to March 2008. This letter will go to all providers effected.
see newstories for letter as a download

15th May 2008

SCA Has changed it's contact details:

Erica Lockhart – SCA Chief Executive
Erica.Lockhart@surreycare.org.uk
Telephone & Fax: 01372 360593, Mobile: 07738 227362

Erica Lockhart – Skills for Care Surrey Coordinator
Mobile: 07515 825495

Jenni Turner – PA to Erica Lockhart
General Enquiries and Skills for Care Administration
jenni.turner@surreycare.org.uk
Dorset House, Regent Park, Kingston Road, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 7PL.
Telephone: 01372 824248, Fax: 01372 824600

Lisa Mack – Events & Programme Administrator
lisa.mack@surreycare.org.uk / lisamack1@aol.com
Mobile: 07779 584397

14th August 2007

A new website at www.employingmigrantworkers.org.uk takes employers step-by-step through the procedure for checking that job applicants are entitled to work in the UK, including explanations of acceptable documentation. To avoid allegations of racial discrimination checks should be carried out for all potential employees, and must be done before the person is employed.

For more information see link

http://www.employingmigrantworkers.org.uk/