All Courses
Course Catalogue
CPD-accredited training programmes for every stage of your social care career
Induction & Care Certificate
The Care Certificate (15 Standards)
Complete all 15 standards of the Care Certificate with guided learning, practical assessments, and workplace evidence templates. The nationally recogn...
Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate
The government-backed qualification building on the Care Certificate. Covers person-centred care, safeguarding, communication, health and safety, and ...
Statutory & Mandatory Training
Health and Safety Awareness
Understand your legal responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Covers risk assessment, RIDDOR reporting, COSHH, workplace hazard...
Fire Safety Awareness
Statutory fire safety training covering the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Includes fire prevention, evacuation procedures, fire extingui...
Manual Handling (People and Objects)
Safe moving and handling techniques for care workers, including hoisting, slide sheets, and transfers. Covers the Manual Handling Operations Regulatio...
Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
Standard and transmission-based precautions, PPE donning and doffing, hand hygiene (5 moments), waste management, outbreak management, and decontamina...
Safeguarding Adults Level 1
Introduction to adult safeguarding principles for all care staff. Covers the six principles of safeguarding under the Care Act 2014, types of abuse an...
Safeguarding Adults Level 2
Advanced safeguarding training for senior care staff and designated safeguarding leads. Covers the Mental Capacity Act in safeguarding contexts, makin...
Safeguarding Children Awareness
Awareness-level training on recognising signs of child abuse and neglect, understanding your responsibility to report concerns, and the legal framewor...
Medication Administration and Management
Safe handling, administration, recording, and error reporting for non-clinical care staff. Covers the seven rights of medication administration, MAR c...
Food Safety and Hygiene (Level 2)
Food safety principles for care staff involved in meal preparation, storage, and service. Covers food hygiene regulations, allergen awareness, tempera...
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Understand the Equality Act 2010 protected characteristics, unconscious bias, person-centred approaches to diversity in care, culturally appropriate c...
Data Protection and GDPR in Care Settings
Your responsibilities under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 when handling personal and sensitive data. Covers data protection principles, law...
Recording and Reporting
Accurate, timely, and professional record-keeping in care environments. Covers care plan documentation, daily log entries, incident reports, handover ...
Communication in Care Settings
Effective verbal, non-verbal, and written communication with service users, families, and multi-disciplinary teams. Covers overcoming communication ba...
Basic Life Support (BLS) and First Aid Awareness
Essential life-saving skills including CPR, recovery position, choking response, and use of an AED. Covers when to call 999, first aid for falls, seiz...
Mental Capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
Understanding the five key principles of the MCA 2005, best interests decision-making, assessing capacity, the role of Independent Mental Capacity Adv...
Duty of Care
Understanding your legal and professional duty of care to service users, managing dilemmas between duty of care and individual rights, handling compla...
Person-Centred Care
Delivering care that puts the individual at the centre of every decision. Covers person-centred thinking tools, care planning around individual prefer...
Privacy and Dignity in Care
Respecting and promoting the privacy, dignity, and human rights of every person in your care. Covers the Human Rights Act 1998 in care contexts, pract...
Lone Working in Domiciliary Care
Staying safe while delivering care in service users' homes. Covers dynamic risk assessment, personal safety strategies, communication protocols, emerg...
Conflict Resolution and De-escalation
Managing challenging situations, verbal aggression, and distressed behaviour in care settings. Covers triggers and warning signs, verbal and non-verba...
Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training
Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training - Tier 1
The government-mandated e-learning module for all health and social care staff. Covers understanding learning disabilities and autism, reasonable adju...
Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training - Tier 2
Interactive training for staff who provide direct care or support to people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people. Includes co-delivered c...
Specialist Care
Dementia Awareness and Person-Centred Dementia Care
Understanding dementia types, progression, and their impact on individuals and families. Covers person-centred dementia care approaches, communication...
Mental Health Awareness in Social Care
Recognising common mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, psychosis, and personality disorders in service users. Covers appropriate s...
End of Life Care and Bereavement Support
Supporting individuals and their families through end of life with compassion and dignity. Covers advance care planning, recognising end-of-life signs...
Diabetes Awareness for Care Workers
Understanding Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, recognising hypo- and hyperglycaemia, supporting medication and insulin management, dietary considerations, ...
Epilepsy Awareness for Care Workers
Understanding epilepsy types and triggers, recognising seizure presentations, first aid during a seizure, medication management, risk assessment inclu...
Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Skin Integrity
Recognising pressure ulcer risk factors, skin assessment using validated tools (e.g., Waterlow), repositioning schedules, nutrition and hydration in s...
Falls Prevention and Management
Understanding why falls happen in care settings, risk assessment and environmental modification, post-fall protocols, when to call emergency services,...
Nutrition and Hydration in Care
Understanding nutritional needs of adults in care, recognising malnutrition and dehydration risk, food and fluid monitoring charts, the MUST screening...
Catheter Care Awareness
Understanding urinary catheter types, routine catheter care and hygiene, recognising signs of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), whe...
Positive Behavioural Support (PBS)
Understanding behaviour as communication, functional behaviour assessment, proactive and reactive strategies, person-centred approaches to reducing re...
Oral Health Awareness in Care
Why oral health matters for adults in care, daily mouth care routines, recognising oral health problems, supporting people with dentures, and the rela...
CQC Compliance & Governance
CQC Single Assessment Framework: Understanding All 34 Quality Statements
A comprehensive walkthrough of the SAF framework, what inspectors assess under each quality statement across the five key questions (Safe, Effective, ...
Preparing for CQC Inspection: A Registered Manager's Guide
Practical preparation strategies from inspection notification to evidence presentation. Covers documentation readiness, staff briefing, managing inspe...
Regulation 17 Good Governance for Registered Managers
Deep dive into your Regulation 17 obligations: governance frameworks, quality assurance systems, audit cycles, risk management, evidence management, a...
Leadership & Management
Supervision Skills for Senior Carers and Team Leaders
Delivering effective, documented supervision sessions that meet CQC Regulation 18 requirements. Covers supervision models, reflective practice, settin...
Leadership in Adult Social Care
Developing leadership skills at every level, from senior carer to registered manager. Covers leadership styles, motivating teams, managing change, bui...
Recruitment, Induction and Retention in Social Care
Best practice in values-based recruitment, safer recruitment procedures (DBS, references, right to work), structuring effective inductions aligned to ...
NVQs / RQF Qualifications
NVQs / RQF Qualifications
Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care (RQF)
The nationally recognised qualification for senior care workers and those progressing to supervisory roles. Covers person-centred care, safeguarding, communicat...
Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support (RQF)
For healthcare support workers in clinical and community settings. Covers clinical skills, anatomy and physiology awareness, infection control, duty of care, an...
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care (RQF)
The mandatory qualification for CQC Registered Managers. Covers governance and regulatory compliance, resource management, safeguarding and protection, partners...
Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (RQF)
The mandatory qualification for residential childcare workers in England. Covers safeguarding children, positive relationships, health and wellbeing of children...
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (RQF)
For registered managers and aspiring managers of children's residential care homes. Covers Ofsted regulatory requirements, safeguarding leadership, quality of c...
Children's Residential Care
Safeguarding Children Level 2 (Children's Homes)
Advanced safeguarding training for staff in children's residential settings. Covers the Children Act 1989 and 2004, Working Together to Safeguard Chil...
Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for Children's Homes
For registered managers and senior staff acting as DSL. Covers the DSL role and responsibilities under Keeping Children Safe in Education and Working ...
Attachment Theory and Trauma-Informed Care
Understanding how early adversity, abuse, neglect, and disrupted attachments affect children's brain development, emotional regulation, and behaviour....
Positive Behaviour Management in Children's Homes
Managing challenging behaviour using relationship-based, trauma-informed approaches. Covers understanding behaviour as communication, functional behav...
Physical Intervention and Restraint Awareness
Understanding the legal framework for physical intervention in children's homes under the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 (Regulation 20). Covers wh...
Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) and Criminal Exploitation (CCE) Awareness
Recognising the signs that a child or young person may be being sexually or criminally exploited, including county lines involvement. Covers grooming ...
Children's Rights, Participation and Advocacy
Understanding the rights of children in care under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Children Act 1989, and the Children's Homes Regul...
Understanding the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards
A practical guide to the regulatory framework governing children's residential care in England. Covers all nine Quality Standards, the role of the reg...
Missing from Care: Prevention, Response and Recording
Understanding why looked-after children go missing, risk factors, prevention strategies, and the required response protocols. Covers Regulation 34 (mi...
Self-Harm and Suicide Awareness in Young People
Recognising signs of self-harm and suicidal ideation in children and young people in residential care. Covers risk factors specific to looked-after ch...
Substance Misuse Awareness for Residential Childcare Staff
Understanding substance and alcohol misuse among young people in care. Covers common substances, recognising signs of use, harm reduction approaches, ...
Transition Planning: Preparing Young People for Adulthood
Supporting young people aged 16+ in residential care as they transition to independence, supported accommodation, or adult services. Covers Pathway Pl...
Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing of Looked-After Children
Understanding the mental health needs of children in care, including the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), attachment disruption, and pl...
Online Safety for Children in Residential Care
Protecting children and young people from online risks including cyberbullying, online grooming, exposure to harmful content, and sexting. Covers the ...
Equality, Diversity and Cultural Competence in Children's Homes
Supporting children from diverse backgrounds including different ethnicities, religions, sexualities, gender identities, and disabilities. Covers the ...
Key Working and Building Therapeutic Relationships
The role of the key worker in children's residential care. Covers building trust and consistent relationships with children who have experienced rejec...