What is the NMDS?

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The NMDS has been designed by Skills for Care (the sector skills council for social care) to gather workforce information about the social care sector for the first time. The NMDS is a means to collect minimal information about services and staff across all service user groups and sectors within social care.

The key aim of this data collection is to help identify service provision gaps within the social care sector, such as workforce qualification gaps, and to use the information to help influence and determine the future funding, training and resource allocation for the whole social care sector.

Benefits of completing the NMDS  

• Access to Training Strategy Implementation (TSI) funding to support your staff with NVQs and Common Induction/ Learning Disability Qualifications to meet the National Minimum Standards.
• Offers a means to benchmark the quality of your service to other equivalent services across England
• Will reduce the amount of paper work they need to do with AQAA submissions
• Information provided will help to influence and determine the future funding, training and resource allocation that will be available for your region.

The NMDS must be completed online via - www.nmds-sc-online.org.uk

For more information about the NMDS - www.nmds-sc.org.uk

For information or support and training on the NMDS please contact:

James Blundell  Email – jamesblundell@warwickshire.gov.uk 

                         Tel – 01926 745120