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Link between compliance and quality assurance

The Oliver McGowan Code of Practice: why compliance alone won’t satisfy CQC

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How the system funds social care training – and quietly blocks it

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Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training

How to Commission Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training

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Employer-Direct Accelerator Programme (EDAP)

Why your social care workforce strategy is failing, and what a structured 90-day programme can do about it

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Care worker addressing a conference on social care workforce strategies.

Who speaks for the social care workforce? It’s 2026, and I’m still not sure it’s Skills for Care

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Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training

10 Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training myths that could put employers at risk

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Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training

How to choose an Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training provider

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Skills for Care Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy

Why the Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy’s 80% qualification target is mathematically impossible

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I've completed the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training badge

Why completing Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training isn’t enough

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Quality Assured Care Learning Government Recommended

Quality Assured Learning Service (QACLS)

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The Oliver McGowan Code of Practice CPA Webinar Briefing Note

The Oliver McGowan Code of Practice: A Briefing on Regulatory Compliance and CQC’s Approach

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EdgeWorks™ Featured in Digitising Social Care success stories

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ADASS 2025 spring survey briefing notes

ADASS Spring Survey 2025: Why adult social care faces its toughest test yet

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AI and human hand touching

Why EdgeWorks signed the Oxford Project pledge on the responsible use of Generative AI in social care

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EdgeWorks AI Assistant

Care Academy AI Assessment Assistant launched

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Skills England: Sector skills needs assessments Health and Adult Social Care

Health and Social Care skills gaps: What the latest evidence tells us

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AI and human hand touching

Introducing the EdgeWorks Care Certificate GPT Assistant

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Care Certificate standards update

Updated Care Certificate content coming May 2025

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Updated 2025 Care Certificate Standards

We’ve mapped the Care Certificate qualification against the updated Care Certificate Standards so you don’t have to

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Completing the level 2 adult social care certificate on a computer

Why it’s time to integrate the Care Certificate with the Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate qualification

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