Friday 14 June 2019

Consultation on the draft health and social care workforce strategy

Social Care Wales and Health Education and Improvement Wales have been working together to develop a Workforce Strategy for Health and Care.  Together with our partners, the Institute of Public Care, Oxford Brookes University (IPC) we are now entering the consultation phase of the draft strategy. 

The consultation will be carried out in a number of ways, including a series of workshops, webinars and an online survey carried out between July and August.

The Workshops are ½ day - 9.30am until 12.30pm, taking place on the following dates:

North Wales 
5th July 2019 Optic Centre, Glyndwr University, St Asaph, LL17 0JD http://conferencevenues.glyndwr.ac.uk/StAsaph

West Wales 
8th July 2019 Principality House (Paxton Room), National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire SA32 8HN https://botanicgarden.wales/garden-areas/principality-house/

South Wales 
9th July Orbit Business Centre, Rhydycar Business Park, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 1DL https://www.orbitbusinesscentre.co.uk/en/facilities/

The target audience for the workshops are as follows:

  • Managers at all levels from across health and social care including statutory, voluntary and private service providers including Heads of Service, Service Managers, Workforce Managers, Responsible Individuals, Registered Managers, Human Resource Managers, etc.
  • Regional Partnership Boards
  • Carers networks and citizen panels
  • Education providers from across Higher Education, Further Education and Work Based Learning providers
  • County Voluntary Councils
  • Unions
  • Regional skills networks

To book a place on one of the above workshops please email: qedwards@brookes.ac.uk
If you are unable to attend one of the workshops and would still be interested in being involved in this work, there will be an opportunity to take part in a webinar event on either 23 July 2019 at 10.00am or 2.00pm or the 26 July 2019 at 10.00am or 2.00pm. The webinar will be approximately one hour in duration and will cover the same areas as the workshops and there will be an opportunity for you to provide your input and views. 

The following links provides details on the times of the webinars and also guidance on how best to access the webinar:


Further information regarding the on-line survey will be published on both the Social Care Wales and Health Education and Improvement web pages in due course.

If you have any queries about the events, please emailqedwards@brookes.ac.uk. For any other questions please contact clem.price@wales.nhs.uk or jon.day@socialcare.wales in the first instance.

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