Skills for Care is working with fourteen projects in neighbourhoods and communities across England to test out a practical approach to enabling skilled communities. This two-stage process is defined as Neighbourhood Workforce Planning (understanding and planning workforce development at a neighbourhood level) and Community Skills Development (finding innovative and unique ways to improve specific skills related to specific support issues in a particular community).
In many local neighbourhoods there is often excellent practice that has been going on for many years between people, making best use of people’s skills and talents. However, by taking a skills-led approach to community capacity building at a local level Skills for Care believes that people’s confidence and competence to support each other in subtle ways can improved and that this approach can have a big impact on peoples lives – delivering added value too.
