Caring For Care

Caring For Care: health and social care training for the UK care sector

Caring For Care presents itself as a national provider of health and social care training in the UK. Its courses are delivered by practising healthcare professionals, which the company links to direct knowledge of the needs and challenges facing care staff. According to its own description, the training is designed to be efficient and quality-driven, taking into account the time and budget constraints of care settings.

The company is part of Impact Futures Group and operates from its head office in Stoke-on-Trent. Its offering is aimed at nurses, care managers and healthcare assistants, and the firm states that it trains more than 20,000 professionals each year.

Training areas available

Caring For Care's catalogue is organised into several subject areas covering both mandatory competencies and clinical and management specialities:

• Care: mandatory subjects and more specialist topics for all care staff.
• Clinical: specialist clinical and complex care courses, aimed at nurses and advanced carers.
• Train The Trainer: training so that your own staff can deliver their courses, with a range of subjects available.
• First Aid: regulated first aid qualifications through Qualsafe Awards, to meet legal requirements.
• Safeguarding: a variety of courses to protect both adults and children.
• Mandatory: the core skills your staff should have, available as individual subjects or as a package.
• Conflict: specialist training to help care for individuals with behaviours that challenge.
• Specialist Care: subjects for those who care for individuals with more specialised needs.
• Health & Safety, Mental Health and others: complementary areas within the training offering.

In addition to face-to-face courses, the company offers e-learning and an associated shop. It has a calendar of public courses and venues for those open sessions.

Reach and clients

Caring For Care works with healthcare providers, councils, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), private hospitals and NHS organisations across the UK. The company states that it trains more than 20,000 nurses, managers and support workers each year, and presents itself as one of the largest specialist healthcare and clinical training providers in the country.

Its proposition is aimed at helping care settings meet CQC (Care Quality Commission) standards, the regulator of health and social care in England.

Partnerships and accreditations

The company states that it works in partnership with the leading UK awarding bodies. In the field of first aid, it delivers regulated qualifications through Qualsafe Awards. This link with accrediting bodies is one of the cornerstones of its public presentation.

Team and customer service

The team includes course advisors, an office manager and a recruitment officer, among other roles. The company states that it responds to enquiries within one working day, usually the same day. For enquiries about staff training and development, it provides a phone number and an office email address.

The firm also offers its training room for hire, as stated on its website.

Reviews

The site shows a rating of 4.9 out of 5 based on 13,791 reviews, and the company states that it has more than 6,000 positive reviews on independent platforms such as Reviews.io, Facebook, Yell, Google and Trustpilot. The company emphasises that it uses independently verified reviews rather than its own testimonials.

Location and contact

Caring for Care Limited, Suite F10, The Old Town Hall, Gimson Street, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 3FF · Phone: 01782 563333 · Email: office@caringforcare.co.uk · Hours: Monday to Friday: 09:00-16:30; Saturday and Sunday: closed