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September 23, 2025

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23 September 2025

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Last Chance to book for our Autumn Conference!

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!

Final Speakers Announced: The King's Trust

We’re excited to confirm that Alison Millard and Jason Wright from The King's Trust(formerly The Prince’s Trust) will be joining us as speakers at our Autumn Providers Conference.

Their session, titled “Recruiting Your Future Workforce”, will explore how The King's Trust is helping organisations attract and support the next generation of professionals in social care. Funded by the Department of Health & Social Care, their programmes align with NHS England’s Widening Access & Participation initiative, focusing on young people aged 16–30 from diverse backgrounds.

You can find our more about The King's Trust including details of 2 inspiring case studies here .

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Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker (Mental Health Pathway) Apprenticeship

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We wanted to share some exciting news with you. National training provider Realise has just launched a brand-new Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker (Mental Health Pathway) Apprenticeship .

⭐ Designed for those working in complex care with mental health provision
⭐ Can be completed in as little as 8 months
⭐ Fully funded by the Apprenticeship Levy – so no cost to employer or employee

This is a brilliant opportunity for care professionals looking to advance into a Senior Support Worker role and enhance their skills in mental health care.

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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

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Provider Training Survey – Data Protection & Cyber Security

Following research that identified a gap in high-quality data protection and cyber security eLearning for the social care sector, Digital Care Hub developed two free courses specifically for care providers.

- The first course, launched in December 2023, designed for all staff - www.digitalcarehub.co.uk/digital-skills-and-training/elearning/staff/
- The second, released in January 2025, tailored for Data Protection Leads - www.digitalcarehub.co.uk/digital-skills-and-training/elearning/leads/

To ensure our training continues to meet the needs of the sector, we’re inviting all CQC-registered care providers to complete a short survey. Your feedback will help us shape our courses to ensure they are both relevant and useful. This survey should take no longer than 5-10 minutes to complete.

All responses will be used anonymously.

Thank you for taking the time to share your views—we really appreciate it.