The General Social Care Council (GSCC) recently launched the Grow Your Own (GYO) toolkit, a step-by-step guide to help students, employers and universities get the most out of GYO schemes. GYO schemes are used by local authorities and the voluntary and private sectors to support their employees, or potential employees, to qualify as social workers.
The GYO toolkit has been jointly produced by the GSCC, the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King’s College London (KCL) and oversee by a partnership of key stakeholders. For the first time it brings together the experience and knowledge of people who have run or participated in GYO schemes over many years.
The toolkit is available for download from: www.gscc.org.uk/Publications
A hardcopy of the toolkit can be obtained by emailing: GYOtoolkit@gscc.org.uk
