We provide innovative consultancy solutions and tailored training to support the radical transformations in working practices and new partnerships needed for effective adult’s and children’s social care despite the current challenging environment. Our consultants are experienced, senior professionals bringing expertise from social work, social care, health and learning and development backgrounds in Local Authority social services, housing, health and other public sector organisations and also in the private, voluntary and private care sectors.

Developing Your Organisation

We can help you to create the organisational culture required in transforming and managing change across your service by upskilling your leaders, managers and staff to deliver best professional practice in line with your policies, procedures and guidelines.

We can facilitate improvements in your organisational performance and complement your own resources by:
  • supporting your transformation and integration programme to deliver new agendas
  • facilitating multi-agency and multi-professional working
  • developing teams and individuals
  • assisting you to have more productive interactions and meetings
  • providing professional learning and development services
  • drafting policies, procedures, practice guidelines and documents
  • facilitating process mapping and evaluation
  • providing flexible, HR support during restructure and supporting performance improvement

Training

We offer a complementary range of training tailored to your needs including the following:
TESTIMONIAL
“We have worked with Central Consultancy & Training for many years commissioning programmes from them for the Adults Social Care workforce in Birmingham.

Some of the programmes were historically around the introduction of the Care Act but more recently Defensible Decision Making and Strength Based Practice and currently Safeguarding for Social Workers, Managers and Non Social Work Managers.

Safeguarding courses were reconfigured to be delivered remotely online during lockdown and the Pandemic.

I have found Central Consultancy & Training as a training provider to be reliable , knowledgeable and flexible to changing need.“
The Learning and Development Service, BCC Directorate for people

Developing Your People

We offer support to improve professional practice, to help your people step into more senior roles and to develop competence in the delivery of citizen-centred services. Our solutions range from individual coaching through to bespoke learning and development programmes designed to support changing expectations and increasing standards.

Leadership and Management in Social Care
We provide successful and innovative leadership and management programmes for developing managers and aspiring leaders providing personalised social care services across the whole social care workforce.

Coaching for improved job performance, transition into senior roles, career development and life-balance
We have a network of qualified coaches combining coaching expertise with strong background knowledge of the sector. We offer coaching support to managers at every level to deliver effectively for the organisation, including group coaching for senior teams.

Training to support social care managers and workers
We offer a complementary range of training programmes to support professional practice and personal development in delivering citizen-centred practice in the context of personalisation.

With access to a team of first-rate trainers we also have particular expertise in providing comprehensive training interventions where you may need to address tight time scales or reach large numbers of participants.
TESTIMONIALS
"Our organisation has commissioned Central to deliver a range of training programmes over the past 3-4 years. These programmes have been designed mainly for our adult social care workforce and been focused on: Defensible Decision Making; Writing Reablement Outcomes; Strength-based Practice and most recently Conversations with Carers.

Their knowledge of the Care Act 2014 and Safeguarding is excellent and the trainers demonstrate a real desire to stay up to date with their own knowledge and CPD.

We have consistently had positive evaluations of all these learning programmes by employees. They have become a key partner in helping to develop our adult care practitioners’ confidence, knowledge and skills and their courses are all on our Core Training framework for practitioners, which speaks for itself.
 
They have been flexible and responsive to our ever- changing needs within Adult Social Care and we have really benefited not only from their training provision but also from their consultancy. We look forward to continuing to work with them in the future."
South Gloucestershire Council

“Training brilliant – best course Ive been on“
Social worker, Herefordshire council