WORK BASED LEARNING

Work Based Learning

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Department for Employment and Learning, United Kingdom

Department for Employment and Learning in the United Kingdom is responsible for looking for career and employment opportunities throughout United Kingdom. Department for Employment and Learning, is the equivalent of Jobcentre Plus in Northern Ireland and extends the network of employment centres offer help with employment and benefits for people of working age. The department is a systematic, planned and ongoing overall aim to prepare, develop and integrate human resources into the production process by providing knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the best performance of all employees in their current and future positions and adapt to the changing demands of the environment internationally. The department also works for technical development of the workers across the United Kingdom; produce results of quality; and provide excellent services to their customers (Consulting, 2005, pp. 165-178).

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in UK has debated on the term 'Training and Development' for a long time during the revisiting of the professional standards in 1999/2000, as observed by Harrison. According to the debates, the concept of “Employee Development" was also thought of as a remindful of the master and salve between employee and the employer (Blanchard & Thacker, 2004, pp. 25-28).

Then, the expression, "Human Resource Development" was disapproved by academicians, who had a strong objection to the idea of considering people as "resources" — this was a thought that they felt that the term apparently seemed to be humiliating to the individual. Finally, “Learning and Development” was the term which the CIPD decided upon ", though, that was not without problems and hype too, with the term "learning" being an ambiguous name.

Social Care Legislation in the UK

The failure to invest in the United Kingdom's social care services constitutes death by a thousand cuts to a vital public service and in the quality of care as private care homes are forced to cut their overheads and provide a punitive 'no-frills' budget.

The main worry is that of an unsustainable care economy, which in turn poses the risk of endemic abuse and neglect within the care provision system. Meanwhile, the effects of Lansley's reforms so far have been to remove an estimated £1 billion from the social care economy at a time when the baby boomers are approaching retirement, and a higher proportion of British society are ageing and in need of good care provision than ever before and where 10 million people in the UK are over 65 years old.

By 2030, this figure is projected to increase to 15.5 million. The Dilnot report's recommendations include investing an additional investment of £1.7-2.2bn as part of wider-scale reform to address this additional pressure on the care economy, and while talks are underway on the basis of this report no financial commitments have been made.

Social care is rapidly moving to the top of both the government's and the opposition's agenda. Labour is now also backing the lobbying and campaigning actions of the Care and ...