Skills for Care is making user led organisation (ULO) grant funding available again for 2016-17. The grant is available to deliver training or organise, purchase and support training, for people who employ their own care and support staff (individual employers). The learning delivered may include, but will not be restricted to, accredited health and social care qualifications.
Eligibility criteria
This funding is only available to support learning and development for individual employers and their personal assistants. Fund holding organisations must be a user-led organisation and have a database of contact details of people who employ their own care and support staff. Skills for Care will not fund any organisation that has to go through a third party to contact employers. Learning providers, local authorities or organisations that do not have direct contact with individual employers are not eligible to apply for this funding.
What will be funded?
Skills for Care will consider funding, via a grant, the full cost of the provision of learning that meets the needs of individual employers, for example:
• moving and assisting
• first aid
• food safety
• the role of an employer and employment law
• managing staff
• boundaries and expectations
• medication awareness
• training to support specific conditions (e.g. autism, dementia etc.)
The full cost can include reasonable travel expenses and replacement care costs.
Partnerships
ULOs who have received this funding previously are required to include work with one or more partners (new or existing) in their proposed project, in order to support continuing efforts to increase the reach of this funding. This ULO must be the lead partner; partnerships must be with an employer or employer representative group could include but are not limited to: other ULOs, co-production groups, local authorities, for example. Training providers cannot be recognised partners.
An application that identifies one or more partners should: outline what each partner (including the lead ULO) is contributing to the project, as well as details of any shared or individual benefits or project outputs. The application must also detail how and why the partnership has been formed and include information about any financial arrangements made between the lead and partner organisation(s).
It should be noted that this tendering process is being undertaken subject to confirmation of funding from the Department of Health.
For further information and to apply, visit: www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Learning-development/Funding/User-led-organisation-funding/User-led-organisation-funding
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Deadline: Thursday 24 March 2016, 12:00