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Social Care Partnership

The Blaenau Gwent Social Care Partnership was established in 2003.

It was set up following a Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) guideline that recommended that in each Local Authority area a Social Care Partnership be established.

WAG determined that the Social Care Workforce Development Programme would have responsibility for the development of a training and development for all staff employed in the Social Care Sector.  This will include staff in the voluntary, independent and statutory sectors.  The WAG guidance emphasises that the Social Care Workforce Development Programme should focus on the planning, resourcing, delivering and evaluation for all training across the Social Care Workforce.

A five-year workforce development strategy has been developed and this is updated each year. 

We have also developed ongoing collaborative arrangements with the nine other local authorities in the South East Wales region (SCiPSE) to put on joint training that partnerships can access.

The following document is a guide to the Blaenau Gwent Social Care Partnership.