Supporting carers in further education, Sybil Lang
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Scottish Social Services Council
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NHS Education for Scotland
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Equal Partners in Care – working together to achieve better outcomes for carers and young carers.
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Sybil Lang, Health Education Development Officer
SYBIL LANG [Piece to camera]
My name is Sybil Lang and I’m Health Education Development Officer with College Development Network which is part of Scotland’s Colleges. My role is a national role which is funded through the Scottish Funding Council. It’s quite unique and it’s to encourage partnership working between the college sector, universities, employers and particularly the NHS and local authorities.
We have a Carer Strategy Steering Group that is chaired by Susan Walsh, Lead Principal for Care, and we have all key stakeholders including Scottish Government, Skills Development Scotland, University Scotland, NHS Boards, local authorities, and we all work together to align workforce planning and education to meet the needs of a skilled, ambitious workforce for the, well, for today and for the future. We’ve got two strands of work in the College Development Network, we’ve got the Carers Strategy within College Development Network which is linked to a guidance document to support carers being able to live full and healthy lives and not be disadvantaged by their carer’s role and that we encourage them to be able to go from school to college to university at any point during their life around the Lifelong Learning Strategy. And we’ve also got a second strand of work where we’re looking at embedding the Carers Strategy 2010 into the Health and Social Care and Early Years curriculum, and that’s by looking at informed and more deep learning for people who need to, who work with carers, and to make sure that health professionals understand that role, both now and in the future.
Through the Carer Strategy Steering Group we have principles that all our key stakeholders have signed up to which are about sustainability of all project work that we do with exit strategies and evaluation. And we also link very much to the Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework to make sure that all learning and education is valued and, it’s very important that in relation to the Carers Strategy 2010-2015, because then you can look at recognition of people with carer’s responsibility. They could get recognition on the Scottish Credit Qualification for the caring responsibilities they have when they may want to go into education, if they get the chance through their role. We can also look at work-based learning and embedding it in the Health and Social Care and Early Years framework so that that’s recognised as well. So I think our principles within the Carer Strategy Steering Group and the principles within the Carer Strategy 2010-2015, will work very synergistically together to allow a framework of learning both to support the carer and to support the health care support worker in the future.
The figures for those caring for people in our society are large and are ever increasing, so what we need to do is work very closely with them, basing ourselves on the principles so that we encourage people with carer’s responsibility to live full and happy lives. And so whether they want to go into health and social care or whether they want to go into other areas of the curriculum that we support them to do that, and we also support health professionals by giving them the… enough underpinning knowledge to allow them to understand how to support those with carer’s responsibility, coming into both schools, colleges and higher education institutions.
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Scottish Social Services Council
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Equal Partners in Care – working together to achieve better outcomes for carers and young carers
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NHS Education for Scotland
www.knowledge.scot.nsh.uk/equalpartnersincare
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