Age needs one voice. Now it has:
Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern England and
Help the Aged in England.
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Age UK Training has provided training, consultancy and action research across the UK and transnationally for over 60 years.
We meet the training and development needs of people and organisations across the UK and transnationally, working across age groups, academic levels and learning abilities, and in a number sectors alongside health and social care.
Each year we average over 10,000 participants taking our training programmes and courses.
Mission, vision and business aims
Recognitions and awards
Teams and client comments
Our mission is to maximise the role of Age UK as a provider of quality services which improve the quality of life for older people.
Our vision is to be respected as an innovative, creative and dynamic training provider who will lead the way in workforce development in the health and social care sector. We aim to be recognised for our expertise and our inclusive approach and, as a result, to be seen as an influential provider of learning and employment initiatives for people within the health and social care sector and for people 50 years and over in any sector.
We have five strategic business aims that steer our activities:
Our training in Yorkshire has been recognised by three of the last four annual Accolades by Skills for Care, the national authority on training standards and development needs in social care in England.
We were finalists for the best provider of learning and development, for our Adult Apprenticeship programme.
We were highly commended as one of the top three training providers and assessment centres in England, for helping care workers overcome access barriers to gain Skills for Life qualifications.
We won Accolades for the most innovative and effective recruitment initiative and the Winner of Winners, for the excellence, innovation and links to employers demonstrated in our involvement in the Future Carers Project.
Our training and participants have been commended regionally and locally.
All our trainers are qualified and experienced with occupational expertise in their field. Our trainers are enthusiastic about the benefits of training and use the most current methodologies in their delivery, ensuring that courses are instructive, absorbing and interesting to attend.
'The standard of training has always been excellent. Eileen, the trainer, always evaluates how well the training went and discusses with me whether changes are needed.'
Our friendly and helpful staff are available to discuss your training requirements and aim to provide the highest quality of booking and administration.
'The staff are courteous and always willing to assist wherever possible. The trainers have high standards of training and are very knowledgeable in their fields.' AC South Staffordshire
Downloads
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Most downloads on this website are PDFs. We use this format to ensure that the document looks the same on everyone’s computer (website pages, by contrast, appear differently depending on how people have set their computer up).
Computers use a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader to download PDFs. If you try clicking on a link to download a PDF and it doesn’t work, you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader onto your computer.
The process is quite straightforward and is free.
PDFs cannot be changed. If you need to be able to type into a downloaded document (for example, if we are offering a letter template that you need to put your name on) we will provide it as a Microsoft Word document rather than a PDF. You can then download it, type into it and save it to your computer.
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