Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
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CPD in social care
CPD in social care is reflected in the GSCC codes of practice, and Skills for Care have recently produced guidance and a strategy for CPD in social care, which recognises that although individual care workers have a responsibility for their own learning, they can only progress this if they are actively supported by their employers.
To achieve this, employers will need to create a culture in the workplace which supports learning and development, and CPD is an important part of this. Employers have a responsibility for CPD as they are required to have a competent workforce to protect their service users.
As care workers are required to work to national occupational standards, they will have to undertake an induction and the specified mandatory training. This training can also contribute to CPD, as it demonstrates the development stages of becoming a competent care worker and continuously developing in the role.
These and other learning and development activities can be planned and updated during supervision (one-to-one's) and appraisal with the manager, as this is the ideal time to use the CPD log to measure progress and check that skills are kept up to date.
Templates for logging cpd activities and development plans based on the Salford City Council models are available below.
Further information from Skills for Care is available on:
- CPD for the social care workforce
- CPD guidance
- CPD strategy
Downloadable documents
- CPD learning log template (Microsoft Word format, 36kb)
- Personal development plan template (Microsoft Word format, 40kb)
If you are unable to view documents of these types, our downloads page provides links to viewing software.
This page was last updated on 24 April 2008
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