Speakers

Shirley Way is Head of Region for the Midlands and has worked at Skills for Care for 8 years following a varied career within the social care sector. Her roles included managing a young people's service and a Local Authority Care Market Development Team.

Shirley collaborates with a wide range of employers and stakeholders to influence change and improvements within the adult social care sector in the Midlands.

Skills for Care's role is to work across the whole system to understand the key drivers of workforce change using insight, data and evidence. It provides managers and those involved in the delivery of social care with guidance on best practice, tools, resources and intelligence to support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture. This combination of strategic and operational activity is the cornerstone of their reach and insight into the sector.