Thematic report |
The quality of education and training in adult health and social care
The purpose of this thematic survey is to provide the Welsh Government with advice on the current standards and quality of education and training in adult social care delivered by further education institutions (FEIs) and work-based learning (WBL) providers across Wales. The report also considers the quality of teaching, provision and leadership and management in adult social care training programmes. The report focuses primarily on training for care workers in residential care homes and other adult social care settings.
Recommendations
Providers should:
- R1 Improve learners’ understanding of person centred approaches and the teaching and assessment of these approaches
- R2 Improve learners’ literacy and numeracy and the support, assessment and action plans for these skills
- R3 Ensure that assessors have manageable workloads so that their visits to trainees are frequent and long enough
- R4 Make sure that assessors have knowledge and skills at suitable levels to support learners fully
- R5 Improve service level agreements with employers and involve employers more in the training and assessment of learners
The Welsh Government should:
- R6 Support providers to improve assessment practices and the training and competency of assessors by working with employers, the Education Workforce Council, ColegauCymru and the National Training Federation for Wales to provide professional development events
- R7 Improve the collection of data on the destination of learners