The 4 week intensive courses work as an introduction to care, with the aim of getting long term unemployed individuals back into sustainable jobs.
The courses cover a range of care related and soft skill subjects including all mandatory training required to work within the care sector.
It is aimed at individuals interested in a career in care with no previous experience and includes short placements within local care homes as a practical guide.
The social care sector covers all the occupations whose aim is to help people overcome difficulties related to physical, mental, environmental or lifestyle problems at any stage in their lives. It includes staff in both professional and non-professional roles who support vulnerable people living in the community and in residential care.
The sector serves two million users accessing over 30,000 provider organisations. Local authorities employ a third of the workforce and most of the rest are employed in the private and voluntary sectors. Increasing numbers of workers are self-employed.
According to most recent figures, around 922,000 people are in paid employment in the social care sector.