Workbooks for the Care Certificate Standards
For an introduction to the Care Certificate workbook please download the Care Certificate Introduction. The accompanying Glossary contains a useful definition of terms.
- Understand your role
- Your personal development
- Duty of care
- Equality and diversity
- Work in a person centred way
- Communication
- Privacy and dignity
- Fluids and nutrition
- Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disability
- Safeguarding adults
- Safeguarding children
- Basic Life Support
- Health and Safety
- Handling information
- Infection prevention and control
A Zip file containing all the workbooks is also available.
The assessments in these workbooks contain fillable form fields. If the workbooks are filled in on your computer it can be saved using ‘Save as’.
Working with Skills for Care, who have been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Skills for Health are undertaking a light touch review to align the existing Care Certificate Standards with sectoral developments and the introduction of the Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate qualification. The current standards will remain available as a tool to support employers provide a robust induction programme. In adult social care it will act as a platform to support progression onto the new Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate qualification. The updated Care Certificate Standards will be available in Spring 2025.
Care Certificate Workbooks Change Log
June 2018 – All Workbooks reviewed
Due to the introduction of the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) we’ve made some changes to the Care Certificate workbook. This is to ensure the workbook is compliant with GDPR and that the learner is aware of the recent changes. We’ve also taken the opportunity to update the wording in module 5 “Work in a person-centred way”. The wording has been changed to reflect person-centred practices across health and social care. The information included within the section, and its outcome, remain unchanged. All links within the workbook have also been checked and refreshed, ensuring that all information is relevant and up-to-date.
July 2020 – Safeguarding children
Amendment to the examples of page 3
October 2021 – Basic Life Support
Page 6 -Treatment section
December 2023 – Understand your role
Page 4 – ‘Protected characteristics’, list of protected characteristics under the Equality Act (2010)
August 2024 – Basic Life Support
Page 3 – AVPU, P corrected to Pain