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March 25, 2009

Care Academy welcomes new Learning Disability Qualification clients

Edgeworks would like to extend a warm welcome to our latest clients The Priory Group, Care UK, Circle Anglia and Lancashire Workforce Development Partnership who are all currently piloting the UK's first and only accredited online Learning Disability Qualifcation - Induction Award programme.

As a fully online programme, both the delivery of learning content and assessment is delivered via our unique Care Academy Learning Management System, which means no lost paperwork and every user's details are instantly available and fully trackable!

We wish all our new clients every success with their pilots and look forward to rolling out even more courses and programmes with them in the near future.

To help new customers understand how our online Learning Disability Qualification actually works, including the submission and marking of assignments online, we have created a short presentation which is available as either a PowerPoint or PDF document. If you would like to receive a copy of the presentation please contact us on 0161 228 1712 or via our online form.

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March 24, 2009

Edgeworks technology helps organisations access government training funds

Despite the fact that Training Strategy Implementation (TSI) funding has been available for some time, some care organisations are still missing out on claiming around £75 per completed induction!

Whilst the reasons may well be many and varied, a common problem appears to be that often the responsibility for processing the claim is not centralised, rather it is the responsibility of managers and staff to complete and process the necessary paperwork. Hardly surprising then that this is often overlooked and vital funding is not claimed!

Skillsforcare In order to address this problem, Edgeworks has developed and recently introduced an automated TSI funding feature within Care Academy. This ensures that TSI forms are generated automatically upon completion of the induction and signed 'electronically' by the individual. This not only reduces the burden of administration but also ensures no missed funding opportunities. In fact, we recently demonstrated to one client that by using our system to centralise and claim all the funds they were entitled to the system would pay for itself within the first year and provide additional funds to support other training activities!

Our system has been approved by Skills for Care and should provide a welcome relief to over - worked staff.

To find out more about our TSI funding technology please contact us on 0161 228 1712 or via the online form.

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Policy Safe now available to Care Acadmey customers

After many months working 'under the bonnet' our technology team has finally delivered our all new Policy-Safe solution.

Policy-Safe is a market leading end to end policy management and compliance solution. If you need to ensure key policies and procedures are delivered, read, understood and acted upon, then Policy-Safe is a must have product.

The new updated version now includes an enhanced administration interface to help managers easily upload, manage, distribute, assess and track key policies and procedures.

Policy-SafeFrom a users perspective, individuals are now presented with a clean, user friendly policy document which they can read, answer key assessment questions and both acknowledge receipt and acceptance.

Policy-Safe can be used in any environment where policy management is required, with typical applications covering:

  1. Recruitment
  2. Employment Contracts
  3. Induction
  4. Health and Safety
  5. Quality Assurance
  6. Training

Policy-Safe has been designed to provide complete peace of mind to senior managers who have responsibility for ensuring compliance with organisational policies and procedures.

To find out more about Policy-Safe please contact us on 0161 228 1712 or via our online form.

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