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Equipping care and support workers with vital knowledge and skills to deliver safe, compliant, and high-quality care across the UK.
Our Skills for Care Statutory and Mandatory Training is tailored to equip care and support workers with vital knowledge and skills. We provide face-to-face statutory and mandatory training UK-wide, at venues or at your premises.
Training for practitioners in domiciliary, home care and supported living. Certificate issued within 24 working hours.
Each course has its own dedicated page with full details, dates, and booking.
Choose the delivery method that works best for your team.
Full day in-person training at our Cheadle Centre or at your premises. Ideal for groups and hands-on practical assessment.
Online theory combined with a shorter in-person practical assessment session. Flexible for shift workers.
Understanding the essential training standards required for health and social care workers.
Statutory training is compulsory training required by law or specified by a statutory body (such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Ofsted, or local authorities) that an organisation must ensure its staff complete to maintain safety and legal compliance.
Mandatory training encompasses the core subjects that care workers must undertake to deliver safe, person-centred care. These essential modules include:
Regular refresher training is required to ensure staff remain up to date with evolving standards, maintain competence, and fulfil CQC and local authority fundamental requirements.
Investing in high-quality training transforms care outcomes and workforce confidence.
Keeping care teams up to date and fully compliant year-round.
CSTF (Core Skills Training Framework) mandatory training should be completed on an annual basis.
This requirement applies to all staff, including full-time, part-time, and agency workers. Regular yearly refreshers ensure staff remain up to date with current regulations and high standards of practice.
Interactive, scenario-based learning led by experienced care professionals.
We place a strong emphasis on real-world learning to bridge theory and daily practice. Each course includes practical assessments and interactive activities led by experienced trainers.
Our hands-on learning model engages participants directly via:
High-quality training delivered by certified health and social care experts.
Our trainers are certified in their fields with years of hands-on experience across various health and social care sectors. They hold credentials fully aligned with Skills for Care standards.
Many of our trainers have backgrounds as practising care professionals, bringing authentic real-world insights, empathy, and practical expertise to every course.
Straightforward booking options for individual care workers and care providers.
Reserve by choosing your preferred date and venue, then complete our simple online booking form.
We deliver tailored group sessions at our Cheadle Centre or at your premises.
We come directly to your workplace equipped with all required training materials and practical equipment.
Contact us with your participant numbers, preferred training dates, and location to arrange your session.
| Format | Best For | Delivery | Price | Member Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Day Statutory and Mandatory Training | General care workers wanting everything covered in a single day | Face-to-face, 1 day (~6 hours) | £49 | £44 |
| Blended Statutory and Mandatory Training | Shift workers and agency staff who can't attend a full day | Online theory (self-paced) + 2-3hr in-person practical | £49 | £44 |
| Mandatory Training for Domiciliary Workers | Home care and live-in carers | Face-to-face, 1 day, home-care scenarios | £49 | £44 |
| Mandatory Training for Supported Living Workers | Supported living and floating support staff | Face-to-face, 1 day, supported-living scenarios | £49 | £44 |
| Mandatory Training for Childcare Workers | Staff in Ofsted-regulated nurseries, pre-schools, and children's homes | Face-to-face, 1 day, childcare scenarios | £49 | £44 |
| Tier 2 Oliver McGowan Training | Anyone providing direct care to autistic people or people with a learning disability | Face-to-face, Zoom, or onsite, 6 guided learning hours | £70 | £63 |
All six formats cover the same core CSTF (Core Skills Training Framework) subjects, or in Oliver McGowan's case, its own separate government-mandated curriculum. The difference is who the scenarios and examples are built around, and how flexibly it's delivered, not what's legally required to be in it.
If everyone can attend on the same day, One Day is the simplest option. If you have shift workers or agency staff who can't all be released at once, Blended splits the theory online so people can complete it around their rota. If your team works specifically in domiciliary, supported living, or childcare settings, the format built around that setting's real scenarios will land better than the general course.
CSTF is the Core Skills Training Framework, the recognised UK standard for statutory and mandatory training subjects like safeguarding, moving and handling, and infection control. Training aligned with CSTF is what CQC, Ofsted, and local authorities expect to see evidenced, whichever format you choose here covers the same core subjects.
The five core CSTF formats, One Day, Blended, Domiciliary, Supported Living, and Childcare, are all £49 per person, £44 for Synergy members. Tier 2 Oliver McGowan Training is priced separately at £70, £63 for members, since it's a distinct government-mandated framework rather than one of the core CSTF subjects.
Every format issues a certificate within 24 working hours of completion, for Blended, that's 24 hours after both the online theory and the in-person practical assessment are finished.