Partners In Care

This nationwide workforce information tool, gathers detailed data from employers, providing an overview of the social care sector for the first time. Launched by Skills for Care in 2005 it can help employers to plan business activity and determine the skills base needed now and into the future.

Workforce and service data is gathered for organisations delivering social care, right across the country. This data is then collated and used to provide useful information and to report back to employers and other key stakeholders about the current state of the social care workforce.

There are two parts to the nmds-sc:

Part 1 - organisational data
Part 2 – worker data

To benefit from the training funding available through Partners in Care, organisations will need to have completed or recently updated their nmds-sc records*.

*Updated since April 2010

The Partners in Care team are happy to help you to get started or update your nmds-sc records. Melanie Judd is the expert in the team, please give her a call.

nmds-sc Online Helpdesk

To contact the NMDS-SC online helpdesk please call 0845 873 0129 or
email nmds.

National Minimum Data Set - CHANGES

Skills for Care have advised that from April 2010 organisations who wish to access the funding grants available for training must have completed and updated all of their NMDS-SC. This includes both Organisational and Worker information; if you have yet to start work on this now is the time to collect your worker details.

We can help with gathering your information and can assist with inputting data for you along with providing one to one advice and support on making the most of the reports available which count towards your CQC AQAA report.

For more information and support or even just to check how much of the NMDS-SC you have achieved please contact Melanie Judd on 07775 742886 or email Melanie Judd.

To keep data within the NMDS-SC accurate and current any establishments that have not updated their information within the last 24 months will be deleted from the system. Skills for Care will send regular email reminders to update and warn establishments if they are due to be deleted within the next three months.

Please contact Melanie Judd if you would like further information or to see when you last updated your records.

Skills for Care continually strive to make the NMDS-SC online easy for social care employers to use.

A new update to the online system and questions means even more benefits for users.

Changes include –

• An extended sort function on worker list.
• All users are now asked to enter the total number of workers they have.
• Employers can now enter details about workers who do not hold qualifications or are not working towards any which will make it easier for employers to use the Training and Qualifications Report to identify skills gaps and identify development opportunities for individual workers.