Wales news round up April 2025
Don’t forget that Care Inspectorate Wales Annual Returns are due by 26 May 2025.
The Welsh Government will host a series of events from April to June on shaping the future of Employability services in Wales and how to help marginalised groups access employment. If you’re interested in participating, you can find out more here.
The Welsh Government has reallocated an additional £2.2m to the Disabled Facilities Grant to make it easier for older and disabled people to adapt their homes.
The Welsh Government has launched a new Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm strategy.
The Citizen Voice Body for Health and Social Care Wales, Llais Cymru are seeking a non-executive board member. If you know someone who would be suitable the closing date for applications is 21 April 2025.
Government Social Research have published the evaluation of the Dementia Action Plan 2018-2022. This will be used to inform future action plans.
Social Care Wales have put together an employer resource for people joining social care who are new to Wales.
Social Care Wales have published the findings of the the Social Care Wales Workforce Development Grant (SCWWDP) end-of-year monitoring for 2023 to 2024. While we welcome Workforce Development Funding, the data shows that over 75% of funded training places were for public sector staff, despite 63% of the workforce being in commissioned services. The report says "This has been an area of focus in the grant circular over the past few years where we stated: “The grant must be used to support equality of access to all types of social care providers in each region, and spend should be broadly reflective of the profile of the sector in the local authority and region.” But it’s clear from the data that the progress towards training take-up and attendance to broadly reflect the profile of the sector isn’t progressing as we anticipated. This area will be strengthened even more as part of the 2025/2026 grant circular".
Social Care Wales have produced new training videos for managers on strength based practice.
The finalists have been announced for the 2025 Social Care Accolades - the awards ceremony will take place on 1 May.