Welcome to the latest What’s New in Adult Social Care, a round-up of training, events, and resources for care teams and managers across Sussex.
A special thank you to Benny Jose for contributing a thoughtful piece, “Sharpening Clinical Skills: A Call to Future Health and Social Care Leaders.”
This three-part webinar series series aims to help care providers build resilience, protect data, and ensure continuity of care in the face of modern cyber threats. Hosted by the Cyber Centre of Excellence, Care England & Digital Care Hub, each practical session will also include a 30-minute Q&A.
Workshop 1: How much should you know?
Wednesday 12th November 2025
12:00pm – 13:30pm
An introductory webinar for anyone taking their first steps toward improving cyber awareness and safety. The session underscores that a strong awareness of cyber risks, governance, and response planning is essential for every organisation involved in care.
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Workshop 2: The Deep, the Dark and the Hidden Dangers
Wednesday 21st January 2026
12:00pm – 13:30pm
Learn how data travels between the the surface, deep and dark web, helping you uncover the hidden risks that could be exposing your service to breaches.
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Workshop 3: Resilience, Recovery & Incident Response
Wednesday 25th February 2026
12:00pm – 13:30pm
This session covers business continuity and recovery planning to reduce the risk. It will equip you with ready-to-use templates and checklists to strengthen your organisation’s resilience.
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We’re pleased to share this thoughtful piece from Benny Jose, Postgraduate Nursing Student at the University of Chichester, reflecting on the importance of continuous learning and clinical understanding in developing confident, compassionate leaders across health and social care.
Engaged, motivated care workers are the foundation of high-quality care. Yet findings from recent wellbeing research show that many still feel unheard or disconnected from decision-making in their workplaces.
This week’s MILE Pathway newsletter explores how employers can build positive cultures, strengthen supervision, and champion staff voice — helping to create environments where care workers feel valued, supported, and motivated to stay.
This session focuses on how to shape a culture where people feel included, supported, and able to thrive. You’ll explore practical tools like the Culture Iceberg model and the positive culture toolkit, and learn how to challenge unhelpful workplace habits while creating space for something better. It’s a chance to reflect, build confidence, and take away ideas you can start using with your team.
Benefits of attending:
Date: Thursday 11th December 2025
Time: 10:00am – 15:30pm
Delivery mode: Online via Zoom
Cost: £250+VAT per person – 10% discount is available for ASC-WDS account holders.
Suitable for: Leaders, senior leaders and managers.
Welcome to another edition of What’s New in Adult Social Care, where we share the latest updates, learning opportunities, and resources for health and social care managers and teams across Sussex.
This webinar, hosted by Skills for Care in partnership with the Outstanding Society, offers practical guidance to help care providers strengthen their approach to medicines optimisation and embed good practice into everyday routines.
Attendees will hear from homecare and residential providers, as well as sector specialists, who will share examples of outstanding practice and tools to build staff confidence and competence. The session also explores how to meaningfully involve people in decisions about their medicines to support person-centred care.
Date: Tuesday 9th December 2025
Time: 14:00pm – 15:00pm
Drawing on the Thriving in Residential Care research from My Home Life England, this two-hour online workshop explores how insights from the UK’s largest qualitative study of older people living in care homes can be applied to enhance quality of life and strengthen evidence-based practice. Participants will reflect on six key ‘Thriving’ themes and gain practical ideas to implement within their own services.
Workshop outcomes:
Participants will receive a certificate of learning from City, University of London’s My Home Life England programme.
Date: Wednesday 19th November 2025.
Time: 12:00pm – 14:00pm.
Delivery mode: Online.
Cost: £66.
Suitable for: Managers, deputies, team leaders, and senior carers in residential/nursing care homes.
Click here to find out more and register →
ShiftWorks is an online learning platform from The King’s Fund, supporting people across health and social care to lead with kindness, inclusion and confidence.
For £35 a year, members gain access to short CPD-accredited courses, live workshops and practical tools designed to strengthen leadership, wellbeing and teamwork. Topics include compassionate management, anti-racism, clinical leadership and cross-sector collaboration.
Upcoming live workshops (exclusive to ShiftWorks members):
This week’s newsletter focuses on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in care settings, inspired by International Infection Prevention Week (19th–25th October). IPC remains one of the most important foundations of safe, high-quality care, helping to protect both the people we support and those who care for them.
In this edition you’ll find guidance, training, and practical tools to strengthen infection prevention practices across care services. From national frameworks and new resources to local learning opportunities, this issue highlights the key steps and support available to help you maintain robust IPC standards this winter and beyond.
Enhanced Leadership Pathway
