Adult social care staff wanted for dementia training survey
Following our coverage (https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/adult-social-care-providers-wanted-for-dementia-training-survey) of Leeds Beckett University’s call for adult social care providers to complete a survey to inform work being done in partnership with IFF Research, the team headed by Professor Sarah Smith and Professor Claire Surr are now seeing participation from the adult social care workforce.
Academics are interested in dementia specific training that care home and home care staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have experienced. The findings will be used to inform the Alzheimer’s Society’s future policy and campaigning work on dementia training and education.
Professor Smith says:
“This is an important piece of research that will help us, for the first time, to understand the reach of dementia specific training for social care staff across the three nations. Knowing whether staff have received training to enable them to deliver appropriate person-centred care for people with dementia is critical in making the case for improvements in the future.
The social care workforce is an invaluable resource for supporting people living with dementia – knowing what support they have, and need, to deliver good person centred care, as well as the barriers and support they need to access training, is the only way to make sure that this workforce is equipped to deliver the standard of care that is needed.
We need as many staff as possible to complete this survey so that we can understand the landscape of dementia training and make the case for best supporting this workforce in the future”
Participation in the survey is anonymous and it takes around 20 minutes to complete. You can access it here: https://portal.iffresearch.com/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=J13651STAFF&id=. The survey closes on Thursday 18 September 2025.