Skills for Care

Skills for Care is the “Sector Skills Council” for Social Care. There are others, like Skills for Business and Automotive Skills, the full list is here:
http://www.ssda.org.uk/list-of-sector-skills-councils.htm
Skills for Care “sets the standards” based on the CQC regulations and the legislation which is the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (regulated activities) regulations 2014
The Care Certificate is one of the “standards” they set and the mandatory training guide is an example of their work.
We are licensed to deliver Skills for Care programmes as a Centre of Excellence.