Consultations & Surveys

This review is essential to ensure our services are effective, affordable, and accessible. Here, you'll find details about the review's purpose, objectives, and alignment with our strategic goals. Your participation and feedback are vital to the success of this project.

For more information and to take part in our next provider briefing please click here

Training Survey Invitation for Nottingham City & Nottinghamshire Care Home Nurses

We are conducting a survey to gather valuable insights about the nursing staff, their current training, and future training needs in Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire Care Homes. Our goal is to ensure all nurses in the region can access funded, high-quality clinical skills training.

All information shared will be used solely for the purposes of:

• · Better understanding the challenges faced by the nursing workforce.
• · Identifying the steps required to support professional development.
• · Providing evidence-based insights into the needs of the market.

This survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Survey Link

Your participation is vital in helping us shape a more supportive and effective training environment for our nursing community. Please share this survey within your networks to help us gain a full perspective of the workforce’s needs.

Take part in research on how care organisations are using technology

The research team at the Centre for Care are looking at how technology is used in social care provision - how it impacts the care workforce (e.g., through recruitment strategies and skill development) and how it might change care practices (e.g., remote visits in domiciliary care).

The ask:

Centre for Care would like to interview staff and managers in care homes and in domiciliary settings about what technology they use; what their experiences are and how they see the future of technologies in social care. The interview will be carried out by a member of the research team (Kate Hamblin, Erika Kispeter or Grace Whitfield) and they last between 30-60 minutes.

The offer:

They can produce outputs for your organisation, such as a short, tailored report on their findings. Participating care workers will also receive a shopping voucher in appreciation of their time and contribution.

If you would like to be part of the project, have any questions, or would like an informal chat to find out more, please contact either:

g.whitfield@sheffield.ac.uk

Erika.Kispeter@lshtm.ac.uk, 07774 493 820

What we’d like from you:

We are interested to explore the benefits of volunteers to the adult social care sector and how we can help build on the positive legacy of volunteering across the social care sector which existed prior to the pandemic and in some areas expanded during the pandemic.

We are reaching out to stakeholders across the sector to help us understand more about volunteering in the sector and the benefits it brings.

Please firstly downloaded the document linked below. Within it, we have outlined a range of questions that we would value your response to. Please feel free to provide as much/little that you are able to. Please return this document with your response to:

Ellen Thompson: ellen.thompson@dhsc.gov.uk &

Jojo Shahvisi: jojo.shahvisi@dhsc.gov.uk.

Click here to download Volunteering in the Adult Social Care sector document

Please see below link to Nottingham & Nottinghamshire’s ICS nursing workforce survey. The completion of this survey is completely anonymous and we are using the results of the survey to understand the challenges and risks that providers are balancing – we would also like to hear your views and suggestions for practical support which you think would help in an urgent situation

https://forms.office.com/r/i4CNt3U2pd

We need your help please!

Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) are a government-funded initiative designed to bridge the gap between the skills employer's need and the skills available in the workforce. They aim to make post-16 technical education and training more closely aligned with local economic priorities, ensuring businesses and individuals have the tools to thrive.

Employers across the UK have long faced challenges around workforce readiness and the availability of key skills. LSIPs put employers at the heart of the skills system, as set out in the Skills for Jobs White Paper. By identifying barriers and opportunities, LSIPs create actionable plans that transform local skills provision—not just discussions, but real change.

We need as many voices from Adult Social Care as possible

Adult Social Care needs as many voices as possible during this consultation, so I am asking you to share and complete the survey that is currently live. Our job is to hear your views and experiences around workforce skills, recruitment, training, development, funding and gaps in occupations and provision, and make relevant changes with employer needs at the very heart of the plan. We use our county wide partnerships, influence and ability to articulate the employer voice to make vital transformations.

Your workforce is key to your business success. Help shape local training through the Local Skills Improvement Plan, which puts employers’ needs at the heart of future skills provision in the East Midlands. This is your chance to influence real change. The survey takes 10–15 minutes, is anonymous, and runs from 21 January to 8 February. Your input will help draft the next LSIP (2026–29), due for publication in summer 2026.

Please share this link with your networks, contacts and anyone else you feel it would be suited to. Its crucial we have our sector heard during this process.

LSIP East Midlands Employers Survey 2026 | QuestionPro Survey - please use this link to complete the survey.