Workforce Initiatives to Support Adult Social Care
Adult social care recruitment and development is supported by a range of interconnected local and national initiatives. Some programmes help people enter employment, others support training and career progression, while wider workforce reforms aim to improve pay, retention and professional recognition.
Mapping workforce recruitment and development
The diagram shows how local and national workforce initiatives support recruitment, development and retention within adult social care.
Individuals may enter the sector through a range of employment, education, skills and recruitment programmes.
Once employed, the Care Workforce Pathway, Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS), apprenticeships and wider workforce reforms support career progression and workforce sustainability.
This index lists a range of Government-backed workforce initiatives, some focused specifically on Adult Social Care and other wider workforce strategies which provide wider support to get people into work.
A. Local Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy and wider employment initiatives
- Oxfordshire Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy
- Oxfordshire Local Skills Improvement Partnership (LSIP)
- Get Oxfordshire Working
B. National Adult Social Care: specific workforce initiatives
- Make CARE Your Career
- Adult Social Care Workforce Reform Programme
- Care Workforce Pathway
- Fair Pay Agreement
- International Recruitment
- Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS)
C. Cross-Government employment and skills initiatives supporting Social Care recruitment
- Adult Skills Fund
- Apprenticeships
- Connect to Work
- Local Skills Improvement Plans
- Pathways to Work
- Return to Work Programmes
- Sector-based Work Academy Programmes (SWAPs)
- Skills Bootcamps
- Supported Internships
- T Levels (currently health only, but social care in planning)
- Youth Guarantee
D. Strategic and policy initiatives
