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The Grey Matter Learning & Norwood Case Study Grey Matter Learning customer Norwood is a charity that supports over 2,500 people a year with learning disabilities and autism, as well as vulnerable children and families facing challenges in their lives due to additional educational needs, including mental health or severe wellbeing issues. The charity provides…
At Grey Matter Learning we love feedback and we get lots of it. Whenever we are asked if we could update Click or add a new feature we take note and regularly review this feedback to see where we can improve Click. This month has seen an exciting update in response to some of the…
Skills for Care’s report on ‘The Value of Adult Social Care in England’ re-iterated the importance of social care to our society. As members of the social care sector, we understand that it provides vital care to millions of people in England. There is a joint responsibility between the Government, commissioners, regulators, Local Authorities and…
When you support some of the most vulnerable people in our society it is vital staff training does not just become a box ticking exercise. Training does not exist simply to satisfy the requirements of the CQC, it is fundamental to delivering the best possible social care services because we all have a duty of…
800 dates! Imagine managing a care organisation that has 40 staff and 20 mandatory courses. This means as a manager you will have 800 dates you need to track. Imagine if your organisation policies have more than 20 courses? Grey Matter Learning’s Click platform makes this easier with our new email reminder function, allowing managers…
Mental health in the care industry Working on the front line, Social Care staff face a multitude of challenges which may impact their mental health. Care workers in the industry have been at increased risk of COVID-19. The risk of infection, together with fear of putting family members at risk, has been linked to increased mental stress in…
How can the Social Care sector learn from the last 12 months as we move into a post-COVID-19 world? The Coronavirus pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges for the Social Care sector. As the pandemic swept through care homes across the UK, the sector was altered in ways that no one could have imagined. The pandemic…
What the Skills for Care Workforce Development Fund means for your team’s training and development? Skills for Care have released this year’s Workforce Development Fund (WDF). The purpose of the fund is to support the provision of high-quality care, and the continuing professional development (CPD) of staff across the adult social care sector. But how…
The Grey Matter Learning team’s mission is to improve lives through learning. As a result we are constantly innovating to ensure Click, our e-learning platform, delivers greater efficiencies for our members. Our overriding principle is to make life easier for managers to collect evidence that their workforce is continuing with their person-centred learning, and they…
Do more than train, learn. Sometimes, it’s easy to focus on what’s happening in the here and now within your job role, especially with the increased demand for social care in recent months. Anything additional which you need to know to update your professional development can wait until your next annual training session, right? Well,…
