NCFE Health qualifications go down well at Otley College
The Distance Learning Unit at Otley College have been successfully offering Safe Handling of Medicines, Dementia Awareness, Provision of Activities, Infection Control and Palliative Care qualifications with NCFE for the past 3-4 years. These programmes currently make up 46% of their distance learning provision, and remain in very high demand.
The courses are extremely popular with a wide range of care providers, who find these bite-sized chunks of learning very effective for staff development in line with the Care Standards. The mode of delivery is Employer Responsive, providing an adaptable training solution for the employer, individual and location. This combined with the high quality learning materials offered by Tribal Learning and Publishing provides an excellent training solution for the sector.
A new National Drug Strategy 2008
If you’re running our Level 2 Certificate in Drug Awareness Studies and their Applications, you might be aware that the current Drugs Strategy (referenced in Element 2.3 of our qualification) will be ending in March 2008.
We’re currently updating the Qualification Specification to recognise this change and this will be available to download from the Qualification Details page soon. For more information on the new strategy, please click here.
The state of social care in England 2006-07
If you run our Health and Social Care courses, you may be interested in the Commission for Social Care Inspection’s report ‘The state of social care in England 2006-07’, now available to download here.
Dementia Awareness and Mental Health
If you deliver our qualifications in the above subject areas, you may be interested in a range of free resources produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). You can access these resources here.
Page author Donna McEwan donnamcewan@ncfe.org.uk May 08