About us

Care Training East Midlands and Central Skills help people achieve their career goals and ambitions through providing advice, guidance, training, accredited qualifications as well as Apprenticeships. We also provide a free recruitment service for employers.

As well as health and social care we provide training to a variety of sectors including childcare and education, retail, hair and beauty, and hospitality.

Who we are:

Experienced – Care Training East Midlands was established over 10 years ago.
Personal – as a relatively small, local training provider we see everyone as an individual with different needs and requirements.
Professional – we’ve proven that we can deal with big projects. Last year we supported thousands of people improve their lives through learning.
Flexible – we don’t have term times, so you can get signed up any time of the year.
Qualified – we have a strong culture of learning and development within the company (see our Skills Pledge).
Straight talking – we won’t use jargon or over-complicate the information we give out.
Forward looking – we’re constantly looking at new ways of developing the provision we offer and use pioneering technology to engage adult learners in a variety of innovative ways, as well as more traditional group and one-to-one work.

How to find out what we can offer you

We have several websites so we can provide tailored information, making it easier for you to find what you are looking for. Our websites include:

Job seekers mini-site (for those over 19 years old)
Business mini-site (this is for employers and well as anyone who is already in work)
ignite website (for 14-18 year olds)
Student website (for our current students)
Central Skills’ website (for the warehousing and logistics sector)

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Our learning centres

Many of our courses are completed in the workplace, so there is no need to take time off work to travel to our centre.

We also have three learning centres in the East Midlands which provide a relaxed and comfortable environment and are easily accessible by public transport.

Care Training East Midlands' headquarters are at Clinton House, which stands in a prime location on the edge of the Park Estate close to Nottingham City Centre. There are four floors with a range of facilities including an online learning centre, several multi-purpose classrooms and small private booths.

Care Training East Midlands Ltd also trades as Central Skills. Central Skills delivers a variety of training and recruitment services to the warehousing and logistics sector. In 2008 we acquired a warehouse in Bilborough, Nottingham, for Central Skills to deliver training from. Click here to visit the Central Skills website

Care Training East Midlands and Central Skills also provide training from our centre in Derby City Centre, which has an online learning centre, training centre and several classrooms.

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Funding available

We have strong and sustainable links with communities throughout the East Midlands and hold direct contracts with the SFA (Skills Funding Agency) and ESF (European Social Fund). This enables us to make sure you receive any funding you are entitled to towards training costs.

Organisations who fund course costs for training we provide include:

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We receive funding form the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) , an agency set up by the government to fund and regulate adult skills training in England. They provide funding for QCF units, which form part of our pre-employment training as well as our work-based qualifications.

We work with Jobcentre Plus (JCP) to support people of working age from welfare into work.

The European Social Fund (ESF) helps people improve their skills and their job prospects. We receive funding and advice from them.

We are an Apprenticeship learning provider. Apprenticeships are an excellent way of gaining qualifications and workplace experience. As an employee, you can earn as you learn.

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Awarding bodies we use

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We are a CACHE centre and provide childcare QCF qualifications awarded by them.

We are a City & Guilds centre and provide a variety of qualifications awarded by them such as QCF qualifications in advice and guidance and supporting teaching and learning and Adult Literacy and Numeracy Certificates. Care Training East Midland's Apprenticeships are also awarded by them.

We are an OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations) centre and provide QCF qualifications awarded by them in team leading, customer services, administration, health and social care, plant operations and logistics operations. We also provide Adult Literacy and Numeracy Certificates and Functional Skills awarded by them.

RTITB Limited is the largest fork lift truck training accrediting body in the UK, recognised by the HSE, HSA and HSENI. The fork lift truck licences Central Skills provides are accredited by them.

We are an EDI centre and Central Skills provides the Apprenticeship in Warehousing & Storage awarded by them. They also provide some of our Functional Skills.

CIEH (Chartered Institute of Environmental Health) accredit our short courses for Emergency First Aid at Work, Health & Safety in the Workplace, Food Hygiene in Catering and Manual Handling.

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Accreditations

Accreditations we have been awarded:

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We are an Investor in People (IiP) organisation. This shows our commitment to continuous business improvement through our employees.

We are accredited with the matrix Standard. It is the unique quality framework for the effective delivery of information, advice and/or guidance on learning and work.

Our Environmental Management System (EMS) have been awarded the ISO 14001:2004 Certificate (certificate no: EMS 530634). We were also awarded the BS OHSAS 18001:2007 (certificate no: OHS 547654) for operating an Occupational Health and Safety Management System which complies with BSI requirements.

As a business that employs apprentices, we can display the Apprenticeship employers badge on our materials. We know that Apprenticeships are an excellent way of gaining motivated, loyal employees.

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Networks

We are members of the Nottinghamshire Training Network (NTN) , which includes other local and national training providers, colleges and the Chamber of Commerce.

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Companies we work with

We work closely with a variety of private training providers, charities and community organisations to help local people, aged from 14 upwards, access the support they need to flourish and thrive.

To find out who we are working with to deliver our ignite project visit the ignite website.

Barracuda Solutions provide us with all our IT, security and telephony support.

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Our Learner Voice Campaign

Care Training and Central Skills make sure we listen to our learners and respond to their suggestions.

We provide suitable opportunities for learners to provide us with feedback and express their ideas. What is more, we want to make sure our learners know they can do this at their own comfort and ease, whether that is face to face with an adviser or anonymously.

The Learner Voice campaign is an initiative to raise awareness of these opportunities to our learners. Although they have always been present we want to make sure all our learners know about the various channels and utilise them with their ideas and suggestions.

Our learner voice is present in:

Evaluation forms after training sessions
Suggestions box in each of our centres
Learners can send us anonymous feedback and messages by texting 07537 402 400. The text must start with CTEMX.
Annual anonymous questionnaires to a random selection of learners across a variety of training
Individual Learning Plans tailored to individual needs

Safeguarding

Learner voice also includes safeguarding. Care Training and Central Skills has a duty of care to all our learners. It is of vital importance that all staff are trained to recognise any signs that a learner may be in danger or distress. Learners are made fully aware of the safeguarding officers at Care Training and Central Skills should they need to speak to someone about any issue or problem.

It doesn’t matter the size of the problem, our staff are here to support our learners.

View our safeguarding policy for further information.

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“The qualifications have developed the confidence of my employees. It has encouraged them to seek other courses to develop their workplace knowledge. Everything that has been done is marvelous.”
David Ward, Operations Supervisor for Termate.

“Our learner is thriving.”
Yvette Williams, Playworker for NCC Children’s Play Services.

“There is always someone at the end of the phone.”
Victoria Opala, Deputy Manager for Tiny Toez.

“It has been fantastic. It’s given me confidence and a new outlook on life!”
Andrew Good, who completed pre-employment training with us.

“People at all different learning levels and experiences can achieve success at Care Training. Some people in my group were less confident when they first started but now we all help to support each other and you can see their confidence grow”.
Dawn Pearson, who completed pre-employment training with us.

OHSAS 18001 OHS 547654	ISO 14001 EMS 530634

Care Training East Midlands Ltd is registered in England and Wales no. 4307537.