Professional Care Workers’ Week 2024: The Future of Social Care
Join us for Professional Care Workers’ Week (PCWW) 2024, hosted by The Care Workers Charity! Celebrating its seventh year, this event honours the essential contributions of care workers and aims to elevate their profile across the UK.
What is Professional Care Workers’ Week?
From September 16th to 20th, PCWW will feature a series of virtual panels and information sessions led by care workers, care managers, and leading figures in Adult Social Care. These sessions are entirely free and accessible from anywhere, ensuring broad participation.
We encourage everyone, both within and outside the sector, to get involved by attending sessions, raising funds, or organising events to celebrate their colleagues.
Why “Professional” Care Workers’ Week?
The term “Professional” highlights the skilled nature of care work, which often goes unrecognized due to systemic issues like low pay, inconsistent training, and high turnover. With 152,000 vacancies daily, it’s vital to change this perception.
Professionalisation means acknowledging the diverse skills and responsibilities of care workers, offering fair wages above the Real Living Wage, providing career development opportunities, ensuring easy mobility between employers, and recognising their immense societal value.
For those receiving care, professionalisation means higher trust levels, safety, accountability, and transparency.
PCWW serves as a platform to elevate the status of care workers in the UK, showcase their excellent work, and facilitate learning and best practice sharing.
What to Expect During PCWW 2024?
This year’s event will focus on the future of social care, featuring sessions on:
- Social care reform
- The future of AI in the sector
- The Skills for Care workforce plan
- The future of home care and residential care
- Workforce safety and well-being
Alongside these discussions, PCWW is a celebration of care workers who support those in need every day, regardless of circumstances. The week promises rich opportunities for collaboration, learning, and planning the future of social care.
We encourage care providers to show appreciation for their teams with small tokens of thanks like cards, cakes, parties, or certificates. For more ideas, download our Afternoon Tea for the CWC Fundraising Pack and the PCWW Information Pack.
Get involved and celebrate the incredible contributions of care workers! Together, we can shape the future of social care.
How do I get involved?
Please click here to download the timetable and the webinar registration links
The details can also be found below:
Monday 16th September
10am-11am The Future of Social Care Reform
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KFSarm0mSUGaXKnCZu-yJA
12-1pm The Future of AI in Social Care: Creating Sector Guidance
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ych6HNl0S_-0jBr8feWx7w
2-3pm The Future of Social Care – the care workers perspective Care Workers
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JIT_12OaSmi4Up0mvbBO_Q
Wednesday 18th September
10-11am Sexual Safety of the Social Care Workforce
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J8ZEQq-_RSiHGpLhtKkrRw
11.30-12.30pm Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LHiHNSUDQICU_ebA9vhhzQ
1.30-2.30pm Issues facing international recruits
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1QZjpIOXRhq8tzuIX9KGmg
Thursday 19th September
10am-12pm Care Sector Leaders: The Future of the Social Care Workforce Care Sector Leaders https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0Y0LSZ3nR3ySh4qWVH1hBA
1-2pm The Future of Residential Care
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HptRSwKiRGe8q1BbRW9CWQ
3-4pm The Future of Home Care
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8O7AYDE7RG-D3zyY07MY5w
