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EdgeWorks™ Care Academy is pleased to announce the launch of their All Wales induction framework for health and social care (adults) e-learning. The induction framework provides a basis for developing...
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As 2017 draws to a close, I wanted to reflect on the year’s highlights and share with you some of the opportunities we have identified for the next 12 months....
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Acknowledge the issues and change will happen We meet many HR, L&D and training managers who struggle to improve their training delivery because of legacy paper-based administration, old HR systems...
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Following our recent acceptance onto the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP) list of approved providers, EdgeWorks™ is pleased to announce that we have now also achieved ‘Main Provider’ status....
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People are the most important asset of any care provider and are at the heart of any successful organisation. Yet we still see many providers struggling to track and make sense...
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Key to the successful achievement of an Apprenticeship standard will be the End Point Assessment (EPA) which will typically be conducted by an independent Awarding Organisation or similar. EPA for...
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Awarding Organisations (AO’s) have confirmed that they will not Quality Assure any non- accredited training as part of their End Point Assessment (EPA) plans, thereby firmly placing the responsibility for...
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EdgeWorks™ has been accepted onto the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) Registration of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP). We are now eligible to receive funding via the proposed Digital Apprenticeship accounts for...
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The Skills Funding Agency has announced that employers will have to sign controversial new contracts as part of the new Apprenticeship standards. An important change will be the strict liability...
READ MOREPOSTED IN FOOD FOR THOUGHT ON OCT 11, 2016 BY THE EDITOR
Working with a learning technology company can be a daunting prospect for many clients and so we have outlined the top 5 questions we are commonly asked. Hopefully, by reading...
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According to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) 2014/2015 Annual Report, around a third of care providers were classified as ‘needing improvement’ and seven percent deemed ‘inadequate’. The most common problems...
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FitzRoy, the national charity supporting people with learning disabilities and autism has chosen EdgeWorks™ to help them deliver induction, refresher and CPD training to their workforce. With over 1,200 employees,...
READ MOREPOSTED IN FOOD FOR THOUGHT ON NOV 16, 2015 BY THE EDITOR
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a perfect world where: Your highly motivated staff are trained and qualified to a very high standard. You have effortlessly breezed through...
READ MOREPOSTED IN FOOD FOR THOUGHT ON JUL 23, 2015 BY THE EDITOR
Since the introduction of the new Care Certificate guidelines, many of our clients have found the lack of clarity both frustrating and confusing. We thought this would be a good...
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Care Academy online Observation Toolkit has been developed to enable care providers to schedule, record and report on all of the key ‘competency observations’ required to successfully deliver the new...
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With the April 2015 deadline fast approaching, the new Care Certificate will soon be upon us. Not too surprisingly we are starting to see an increase in the level of...
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As a leading provider of online learning technologies to Health, Social Care and Housing sectors, EdgeWorks™ is ideally placed to assist colleges, prime contractors and forward thinking private training organisations...
READ MOREPOSTED IN FOOD FOR THOUGHT ON JUL 01, 2014 BY THE EDITOR
Speaking recently at the Institute for Directors, Skills Minister Matthew Hancock made a couple of announcements which were frankly quite astounding. Firstly he announced that from next September ‘all courses will need...
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With the proposed launch of the Care Certificate in March 2015, EdgeWorks™ Care Academy is under-going a significant programme of upgrades and re-development to ensure we are ready to meet...
READ MOREPOSTED IN FOOD FOR THOUGHT ON JUN 23, 2014 BY THE EDITOR
Common Induction Standards to be replaced with Care Certificate March 2015 sees the launch of the Care Certificate, replacing both the National Minimum Training Standards (NMTS) and the Common Induction...
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