News on this page:

You will find articles or links to the following topics on this page:

Provider Locality Forums

MCA/DOLS

Safeguaring Adults

National Minimum Dataset (NMDS)

Devon Care Ambassador Project

Skills for Care Bulletin

Train to Gain

DCT Newsletter

2008 Training Programme

Coming Soon - 2009 Spring Programme!!!!!

DCT Blogs

Provider Locality Engagement Forums

Devon County Council Adult & Community Services have announced the inaugural Provider Locality Engagement Forums.  These will be taking place on 5th, 9th and 15th of December.  The 5th is taking place at gypsy Hill Hotel in Exeter and will be for the East Locality whioch encompasses East Devon, Mid Devon and Exeter. The 9th is for North Devon and will take place at Clinton Hall in Merton. The North Locality covers North Devon and Torridge. Foinally the 15th will see the South Locality which covers Teignbridge, South Hams and West Devon. This will be held at St Cuthberts Conference Centre at Buckfast Abbey.

If you click here you can find a map to Gypsy Hill Hotel and the agenda for the day can be found here

If you click here you can find a map to Clinton Hall

and the agenda for the day can be found here

If you click here you can find a map to St Cuthberts

and the agenda for the day can be found here

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.

If you follow this link here you can see the nominees for the co-chair of each locality and their supporting statements.

Devon County Council Training Courses

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.

We do not recommend that members access courses such as Supervision Skills ro 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..

Mental Capacity Act/Deprivation of Liberty

There is a programme of training dates regarding these important topics.  You can find more information and a link to the Devon Partnership Trust online booking sytem by clicking here.

Safeguarding Adults

There is a full programme of training events coming up.  There are plenty of places available. This information 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

National Minimum DataSet

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 NVQ Funding

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

Devon Care Ambassador Programme

There is now a Care Ambassador section to the website - you can look at the pages here

The Learning Gallery

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

New Newsletter

The next edition of the newsletter will be published shortly (ie before Christmas)

In the meantime you can access the older editions of the newsletter here:

June 2008

March 2008 (3.36MB - pdf help)

December 2007 (550KB - pdf help)

June 2007

March 2007 (404KB - pdf help)

December 2006

See below if you would like to contribute to the Newsletter.

Contributions

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