Over 1,000 carers have completed their training in Birmingham
Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club has reached a major milestone as 1,050 carers have successfully been trained on their grounds.
At the beginning of 2024, the government announced a new package of measures that will reaffirm care work as a career, however Embark Learning Care Academy (ELCA) were already on their game training carers at a unique location.
ELCA, who have been in operation for 10 years and provide free development training for recruits, help to encourage new or fully qualified carers achieve nationally recognised qualifications throughout the West Midlands. One of the organisations’ bases is at Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club, where ELCA is also a headline sponsor. This particular site is currently celebrating a landmark achievement as 1,050 carers have just completed their courses.
Over the last three years, ELCA has been operating at the rugby club and this week, over 1,000 people have just completed their training which brings the organisations total number of trained candidates up to 3,125. As a result, one million extra hours of care will be able to be given by these professionals each year.
Operations Director, Alex O’Neill, said: ‘Our relationship with Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club began some three years ago when we were invited to discuss the possibility of sponsoring the club. From the off, both Fairway Homecare and the Embark Learning Care Academy were interested – but on one specific condition.
‘We wanted to explore how we could really engage with the club and the local community and how the club and the businesses would be able to develop an effective partnership, rather than merely appear on advertising boards and have our logos on the shirts.
‘During our time, we have now successfully trained 1,050 people who were previously unemployed, or hard to reach, facing barriers to entry or economically inactive, and have now achieved formal qualifications and work experience leading to more than one million hours of care capacity being added to the Birmingham workforce.
‘Some 23% of those learners had some form of disability and 25% of the learners were males – both hugely underrepresented groups within health and social care. So, between us all, we are making a massive difference to many thousands of people’s lives and families in an extremely positive fashion and are so delighted that collectively, Birmingham Moseley, Fairway and Embark Learning can all share in and celebrate that success. So, here’s to many more success stories coming from our learning centre at the rugby club, as well as the other bases we have around the West Midlands.’
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