Since 2006 we have developed assessments for the standards produced by Skills for Care and the Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC):

Common Induction Standards – Adult Social Care

CWDC Induction Standards – Children’s Social Care

LDQ Induction Award – Learning Disabilities

Foster Care, Training, Support and Development Standards

We have recently added assessments based on the Skills for Care Knowledge Sets, including:

Safeguarding Adults

Infection Control

Dementia

Medication

Over the coming months the following assessments will be added to CIS Assessment:

Manager’s Induction Standards

Safeguarding Children

First Aid

Fire Safety

Short Break Carers

In the future we will develop assessments to include the LDQ Knowledge Sets, Basic Skills and the National Occupational Standards for Leadership and Management. Check out the News page or click here for our RSS feed.

CWDC and Skills for Care Guidance

Skills for Care and the CWDC make it clear in their manager’s guides that there are two methods for assessing knowledge, questioning AND observation. The foundation of e-assessment is assessing knowledge using questions, producing an evidence portfolio to support that process and supporting the manager / supervisor to check that the knowledge is applied in practice.

Furthermore, CWDC and Skills for Care describe assessing knowledge as a critical part of the learning process and that the assessment process should be recorded for inspections and NVQ’s. Managers have a duty to ensure that "workers have sufficient knowledge and understanding to meet the needs of people who use services" and assessment against the standards is a method for ensuring Continuous Professional Competence.

All of our assessments support both managers and carer’s to comply with the guidance.

Click here for links to the Manager’s Guides.

ALAEP © principle

Assess – Learn – Assess – Evidence Progress. The essence of what we do is support supervisors, supervising social workers, line managers and anyone responsible for workforce development to find out what people do and don’t know – quickly and easily.

Asking questions specifically related to a set of standards means the learning can be targeted to an individual’s needs. Further assessments over time enables each carer’s progress to be evidenced and critically, the success of the learning to be measured.

Designed to support

All of our assessments are designed to support existing workforce development processes, we do not replace or duplicate any of the programs already in place. Most of our customers use the assessments alongside existing e-learning programs and to support mentors and coaches.

Please see the Uses and Benefits page for more details.