September 9, 2025

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9 September 2025

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Our Autumn Providers Conference is fast approaching!

Have You Booked Your Place Yet?

Date: Thursday, 2nd October 2025

Time: 9:30am–3:00pm

Location: The Portway Lifestyle Centre, Newbury Lane, Oldbury, B69 1HE

Spaces are limited — register your place today!

Meet Our Second Speaker:

Donna Watkins – Business Growth Adviser, Business Growth West Midlands

We’re excited to welcome Donna Watkins as our second speaker at our Autumn Providers Conference. Donna is a Business Growth Adviser with Business Growth West Midlands (BGWM), and she’ll be presenting on Business Planning and Energy Grants — two vital areas for any organisation looking to grow sustainably.

BGWM offers FREE tailored support from your very own Business Adviser, alongside access to programmes, training, and events designed to help you network, learn, and achieve your business goals.

Why this matters for social care businesses Running a social care business comes with unique challenges — from managing tight budgets and regulatory demands to ensuring high-quality service delivery. BGWM understands these pressures and provides practical, hands-on support to help care providers strengthen their operations, explore funding opportunities, and build resilient business plans. Whether you're looking to expand services, improve energy efficiency, or simply get strategic advice, BGWM is here to help.

Find out more about Business Growth West Midlands and how they can support your business.

Don’t miss the chance to hear from Donna and discover how BGWM can empower your care business to thrive.

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An update on the Oliver McGowan Code of Practice for registered care providers

15 September 2025

1.00pm - 2.00pm ( Virtual)

Delivered in partnership with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), this webinar provides an opportunity to use the commencement of the Code to ensure guidance and information is updated and that registered care providers understand how the CQC is planning to regulate in relation to this requirement in an effective and consistent way.

Skills for Care

Registered Managers Events

The Registered Managers networks are administered through Skills for Care.

Details of upcoming network meetings are below:-

Solihull

11th September 1-4pm

Herefordshire

16th September 11am-3pm

Birmingham

18th September 12-4pm

The events are not organised by WMCA and bookings must be made directly with Skills for Care using the button below:-

RMNs

Click for a full list of our upcoming events

All Events

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Calling all Registered Managers

Would you like to share your experiences?

Every year we hold two registered manager's conferences and one of the most popular elements is the Manager's Q&A session.

We have begun planning for next year's conference which will be on the 22nd January , and we are looking for managers to participate as part of the panel.

The theme of the conference is 'Are you Well Led?' so we are really keen to hear from managers who are happy to share their experiences.

If that's you, please email enquiries@wmca.care .

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New initiative from Jobchange

£20 for new employees

Are you in the West Midlands Combined Authority area? then this new initiative can benefit you. Working with our long term partner WhichNVQ, you can claim £20 for new employees

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For all the latest news and updates relevant to the social care sector, check out the "News and Info" section of our website.

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Need Help completing the DSPT?

West Midlands Care Association is your local Better Security Better Care support organisation, and offers a raft of online resources, workshops and one to one support to help you complete the DSPT, all of which is FREE to CQC registered providers. Click the button for more info