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Sandy Park Conference Centre, Exeter - 17th July 2009
Details for our 2009 Conference are being finalised, we have an exciting programme of workshops, speakers, exhibition stands and activities throughout the day. Registration will be from 9.00am, ready for a 9.30 start, and it will finish at approximately 4.30pm. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
There will also be a Providers Fayre in the marquee during the day
If you have not yet booked your place (or places) please email or telephone us with your name, organisation name and address, contact telephone number and email address, and let us know if you have any specific dietary or access requirements. If you want to book more than one place please let us know how many additional delegates and include their details. We will be sending confirmation details to you by post.
Note: there will be a photographer there on the day, if you prefer not to be photographed please state this in your email so that we can display this on your name badge.
Email us at dctc@devon.gov.uk, or telephone the office on 01392 381655/383257.
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Speakers will include:
Graham Varley - Personalisation/Putting People First
Carol Barkwell, Devon Independent Care Providers Association (DICPA) - Supported Living
Richard Newcombe - Provider Engagement Network
Workshops and stands will include:
Personalisation & Brokerage, Building a Workforce for the Future, Care Ambassadors, Nutrition, CQC Update, Mental Capacity Act/DOLS & Safeguarding Adults, Leadership & Management, Qualifications & Workforce Development Teams, National Minimum Data Set (NMDS), Dementia Care Mapping
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Other news on this page:
New course dates -
Two new dates are being set up with Devon County Council. The course is suitable for Managers and Supervisors and you can book places using the DCC on-line booking system. www.devon.gov.uk/onlinebookings
Please note that we cannot help with this system so please contact the Training Admin team at DCC for any assistance you may require.
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You will find articles or links to the following topics on this page:
Please look here for the 2009 - 10 training programme
The latest newsletter (Summer edition) will be distributed shortly, and will be available to view on-line very soon. The spring edition is available to download here
(649KB - pdf help)
You can access previous editions of the newsletter in the section below.
The next quarterly meetings will take place in September 2009.
North Devon locality meeting will take place on Wednesday 16th September - The Park Hotel, Barnstaple, 1pm - 5pm
South Devon locality (Teignbridge, South Hams and West Devon) meeting will take place on Wednesday 23rd September - Finlake Holiday Park, Chudleigh, 1pm - 5pm
East Devon locality (Exeter, East Devon and Mid Devon) meeting will take place on Tuesday 29th September - Venue TBC, 1pm - 5pm
Venue details and an agenda for each meeting will be circulated in due course.
The Co-chairs of the Provider Engagement Network are Richard Cawthorne, Richard Newcombe and Geoffrey Cox. Our Spring newsletter contains interviews with each of them.
If you go to this page here, you can see the structure and proposed terms of reference for these forums and also the aims and objectives.
All DCT members can now register with Devon County Council to access courses that they are running. DCT will pay for members to attend these courses but in order to book these you will need to go to this website and follow the instructions. Please be aware that even though DCT will pay for you to attend we will pass on any cancellation fees incurred if you cancel your place or do not attend - these charges vary depending on the course and who is running it - more details are on the on-line site.
We do not recommend that members access courses such as Supervision Skills or similar courses as these are very policy heavy and are targetted at public sector staff. DCT will be running our own courses around these topics.
Please note that we cannot help with this system so please contact the Training Admin team at DCC for any assistance you may require.
There is a full programme of Safeguarding Adults Training, incorporating the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding. Places can be booked via the on-line booking system. The whole programme is also being updated, and will include an e-learning programme on basic awareness. Further information and a link to the booking system can be found here.
Please note that if you are based inside Torbay or Plymouth, the courses they run may be more relevent.
For more information you can contact Richard Rainbow on 01392 38 3388 or email him here
If you would like help with your NMDS survey, or have any questions, please contact the NMDS-SC project worker for Devon, Linda Prior, on 01752 242688 or by email at linda.prior@blueyonder.co.uk.
More information is available on the website; click here to create your account.
Train to Gain is a funding initiative coming through Business Link Devon & Cornwall. For businesses, getting the right skills advice is essential to choosing the best and most appropriate training. Train to Gain helps you to do this by using experienced Skills Brokers who can:
offer free impartial and independent advice to businesses
match any training needs identified with training providers
ensure that training is delivered to meet business needs.
One of the key goals of the service is to make sure that both the training and the skills advice are impartial, flexible, responsive, and offered at a time and place to suit businesses. This marks a cultural shift in how skills training will be delivered, and will ensure that the delivery of training is much more responsive to the needs of every business.
You can find out more by contacting Caroline Murphy by phone on 07747014254 or by email here
If you want to read more about Train to Gain please follow this link here
There is a Care Ambassador section to the website but this is currently being updated. You can look at some of the pages here.
This is a social care resource library located in South Devon in Dartington. There is now an online search facility of its resources. You must log in through the membership pages to access this. If you do not have your logon details please contact us and we can send them out. The resources are free to borrow and you can do the whole thing online and by phone and post. Alternatively you can arrange to visit the Gallery if you prefer. You must be a member of the Gallery to use it, but this is free to DCT members. You can download an application form here
The next edition of the newsletter will be published shortly. We have changed the format for this and future editions - we hope you like it! If you have any comments please let us know.
In the meantime you can access previous editions of the newsletter here:
December 2008 (627KB - pdf help), June 2008 (810KB - pdf help), March 2008, (3.36MB - pdf help)
December 2007 (550KB - pdf help), September 2007, June 2007, March 2007
(644KB - pdf help) (644KB - pdf help)If you have any ideas or wish to contribute an article to either the newsletter or to the website please contact Lynne (for Newsletter articles) and either Eoghan or Lucy (for website articles) at DCT on 01392 38 2071/ 38 3257/ 38 3591
If you follow the link here you can have a look at some of our member organisations and find out more about them.
The National Minimum Data Set is now online. For more information please look at the Skills for Care website or you can go here to see their new dedicated NMDS web site
Now you can set up your own blog to help pass on your learnings to people working in the same fields as you. This way we can all share our skills and knowledge in a public forum.
We will maintain a semi regular blog at this address, but please add your addresses to this blog if you use the service at Blogger.com
Here is our blog address:
devoncaretraining.blogspot.com/
These are updated on a more regular basis now, so please do stop by and have a read, your feedback is always welcomed!
We are a consortium of many employers spanning all of Devon, currently there are over 100 member organisations, representing over 400 establishments and a significant proportion of staff working in care in Devon.