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CareUK: Winning a return in the care industry

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DateNovember 23, 2007 Posted by: Howard Hills   Keywords: benefits, blended learning, innovation, interviews, learner support, learners, platforms, strategy

CareUK deliver care to people who need it in their own homes. They deliver home-based e-learning to their employees who need it. This is an outstanding example of Return on Investment.

The E-learning underpinned a company expansion in a changing regulatory environment that would have been unsupportable without it.

Existing trainer staff were redeployed to higher value training. Staff retention improved by 15%, NVQ Level 2 qualifications delivered in 4 months rather than 10 months, employee expansion of 2,000 a year, trained and assessed for competence immediately on joining.

The investment paid for itself within 6 months but more importantly improved the level of care, simplified compliance, enabled increased recruitment and got people through induction and into profitable work faster.

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You can also click here to hear an interview with Malcolm Bland who worked with Care UK as part of this programme.

 


This article was originally created by the Work based e-learning project at e-skills UK and is reproduced with kind permission.

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