Liverpool Social Care Partnership is glad to announce it is administering the Workforce Development Fund for Liverpool, Sefton, Wirral, St Helens, Knowsley, Cheshire East and Cheshire West & Chester under the Greater Merseyside Care Partnership.
Workforce Development Funding (WDF) is available to any employer whose staff has completed social care QCF or NVQ training which has been completed and verified after 1st January 2012 up until 1st March 2013.
Currently the funding is granted at £12.75 per credit for each QCF unit and £68 per NVQ unit. For more information about the units that are available for funding you down download a list here.
To claim Workforce Development Funding you must meet the requirements set out by Skills for Care / Department of Health. The first requirement is completion (to 90%) of your organisations National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC). For more information on NMDS-SC please refer to the Skills for Care website ( http://www.nmds-sc-online.org.uk/ ) If you need any further help or guidance you can contact me by emailing john@lscpinfo.co.uk or alternatively calling the help desk on 0845 873 0129.
You will also need to complete a Partnership Form and a BACS form to register with LSCP for the processing of funding claims.
For more detailed information please refer to the documentation available for download below:
Other Information:
List of Acceptable Units for ClaimingExample of an NVQ Unit Summary SheetExample of a QCF Unit Summary Sheet
List of Acceptable Units for ClaimingExample of an NVQ Unit Summary SheetExample of a QCF Unit Summary Sheet
Partnership Form*
BACS Details*
*Once these documents have been completed you should return them to admin@lscpinfo.co.uk
If you have any questions to queries on the claiming process please contact LSCP on 0151 427 7044 or email admin@lscpinfo.co.uk.
Fully Funded Qualifications / Backfill ClaimsIt is also possible to claim for any costs that you as an employer have had as a result of sending your staff onto training, this could include staff replacement costs to cover any rota changes for when staff attend training. For more information please contact LSCP on 0151 427 7044 or email admin@lscpinfo.co.uk
BACS Details*
*Once these documents have been completed you should return them to admin@lscpinfo.co.uk
If you have any questions to queries on the claiming process please contact LSCP on 0151 427 7044 or email admin@lscpinfo.co.uk.
Fully Funded Qualifications / Backfill ClaimsIt is also possible to claim for any costs that you as an employer have had as a result of sending your staff onto training, this could include staff replacement costs to cover any rota changes for when staff attend training. For more information please contact LSCP on 0151 427 7044 or email admin@lscpinfo.co.uk
Dementia Fund
At LSCP we have also won the contract to administer the Workforce Development Dementia Fund which offers extra funding for any dementia units that are completed and claimed, currently we are still waiting for the contract for this funding so no details are available. If you would like to be added to our mailing list and updated when further news is available please email john@lscpinfo.co.uk.
At LSCP we have also won the contract to administer the Workforce Development Dementia Fund which offers extra funding for any dementia units that are completed and claimed, currently we are still waiting for the contract for this funding so no details are available. If you would like to be added to our mailing list and updated when further news is available please email john@lscpinfo.co.uk.
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