Rayne Foundation – Better Careers for Better Care Grants

The foundation has issued a call for expressions of interest from social care sector organisations interested in collaborating with it to lead workforce development in adult social care.

The following funding priorities have been identified:

• Recognising, acknowledging and championing the value and skills of care workers.
• Sustainable recruitment into the social care workforce.
• Design and delivery of career progression opportunities for staff across the social care workforce, and the support needed to access them.
• Development of social care leaders.
• Empowering and enabling social care leaders to contribute to strategy and policy development in health and social care.
• Co-production at the local, regional and/or national level of career development opportunities and/or workforce development plans.
• Establishing inclusive, learning cultures within care in later life, and evidencing the positive impact on both the workforce and the quality of care for older people.
• Connecting care provision for people in later life with the wider community to support recruitment and retention within the social care workforce.