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Training and Professionalization of Care Workers across Europe Event
The launch of the Helpcare Training and Professionalization of Care Workers across Europe event within the Health +Care conference and exhibition was a tremendous experience for the project team. We directly engaged with over 200 delegates and were able to disseminate our findings, share knowledge and learn from each other.
More information can be found in our July 2017 newsletter.
Helpcare is speaking at Health + Care 2017 at the Excel in London
Helpcare will be sharing its results at Europe’s largest integrated health and social care event.
Health+Care enables more than 10, 149 senior health and social care professionals to come together forge new partnerships and productive ways of working in challenging times.
It’s Time to HelpCare: A European Crisis
Carolyn Downs discusses the latest recommendations from the HelpCare project which call for better formal education and training in the care sector, to create a career path for carers.
Click the link for the latest issue of Tomorrow’s care magazine and see page 32 under the recruitment section.
http://content.yudu.com/web/1jybr/0A1vxp9/Issue17Dec16/flash/resources/index.htm
The vicious circle of low status homecare work must be broken.
Carolyn Downs writes for the Guardian:
The majority of homecare workers are immigrants who do a great job, but care work needs to be a more attractive and credible career option.
https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2015/mar/05/vicious-circle-homecare-care-work
Carolyn Downs writes for Tomorrow’s Care
Helpcare recommendations: Better formal education and training is needed to tackle the care crisis and create a career path for carers.
Unison’s Homecare Training Survey Report
Since 2010, huge reductions in social care budgets have impacted on the quality of homecare for the elderly and disabled in the UK.
This report details the findings of the research and states that many carers are expected to provide care with little or no training and this care includes the sort of tasks that were previously carried out by district nurses.
https://www.unison.org.uk/content/uploads/2015/04/TowebUNISONs-Homecare-Training-Survey-Report.pdf
The number of care workers on zero-hours contracts jumps to one in seven.
An article in the Guardian ‘finds ‘endemic’ abuse of minimum wage laws. One of the areas the article discusses is the often common practice of not paying carers for their travel time. Read more here:
Training and Career Opportunities Vital to Tackle The Recruitment Crisis
In the Guardian online Carolyn Downs comments on the Helpcare project research results to date. Research has shown that many staff have a negative view of their work, but giving them the opportunity to gain skills and qualifications would make the job more attractive. Problems of recruitment and retention have been explored and the first stage of the research is now complete. Carolyn comments “we hope to develop innovative education practices for the qualification and professionalisation of health and social care workers”
read more here:
Best Practice Report UK
Here you can read some of our research into the current state of provision and training alongside some best practice examples from the UK and the Netherlands.