Fully Funded Leadership Programmes for Adult Social Care

CareTutor is excited to announce the upcoming launch of Skills for Care Licensed Leadership Programmes, created specifically for leaders and managers in adult social care.

These nationally recognised programmes – Lead to Succeed, Well-Led, and Leading Change, Improving Care (LCIC), are designed to help you and your team strengthen leadership, improve service quality, and meet CQC standards with confidence.

Why choose CareTutor’s Leadership Programmes?

These programmes are fully aligned with Skills for Care and delivered by CareTutor’s Head of Learning & Development, Mark Thomson, who brings years of hands-on experience supporting leadership excellence in the care sector.

Each course is:

✅ Fully Fundable for eligible adult social care employers in England through the Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS), worth up to £525 per learner.

✅ Aligned with the CQC Well-Led Framework, ensuring compliance and leadership excellence.

✅ Delivered Live Online via Microsoft Teams; flexible, interactive, and accessible to care providers nationwide.

✅ Integrated with the CareTutor LMS, so all certificates and learning records are automatically tracked and stored for inspection and compliance.

Explore the Leadership Programmes

1) Lead to Succeed:

Build confident, motivated leaders who can drive positive change in your care service.

This programme develops essential skills in effective supervision, performance management, and team leadership, setting the foundation for success across your organisation.

Format: 5 modules across approximately 12 weeks
Ideal for: seniors, team leaders, deputies, new managers
You will: run better one-to-ones, set and hold standards, support performance fairly, and prepare teams for inspection-ready practice

👉 Learn more about Lead to Succeed ›

2) Well-Led:

Empower your registered managers and senior leaders to create a positive, person-centred culture.

The Well-Led programme helps leaders understand what “good” looks like in line with the CQC Well-Led framework, and how to lead by example to deliver outstanding care.

Format: 4 modules across approximately 16 weeks

Ideal for: registered managers and deputies stepping up
You will: connect values to everyday practice, tighten governance, and strengthen culture and communication with staff and families

👉 Learn more about Well-Led ›

3) Leading Change, Improving Care (LCIC):

For forward-thinking care professionals ready to innovate and enhance service quality.

This course supports leaders to identify, plan, and implement improvements that make a measurable difference to people’s lives.

Format: 5 modules across approximately 16 weeks
Ideal for: service leads, improvement leads, emerging operational leaders
You will: co-design change, test and measure what works, and spread successful practice across units

👉 Learn more about LCIC

What is included

Live facilitated sessions taught by Mark Thomson

Learner workbook and ready-to-use templates including supervision agenda, action plan, test-of-change sheets and simple measures guide

Manager sponsor pack with scheduling guide, backfill planner and evidence checklist

Short follow-up call after the programme to review outcomes and embed learning

Certificates and exportable LMS reports for audit

How it runs

Delivery: live online via Microsoft Teams

Scheduling: half-day blocks of three to three and a half hours or monthly full-day format

Cohorts: open cohorts or private cohorts for your organisation; typical group size 10 to 18 learners

Between sessions: applied workplace tasks linked to your priorities; templates provided

Evidence: short practical artefacts, not essays

Accessibility: captions, alternative formats and additional processing time available on request

Substitutions: permitted before session two if a staff member leaves

Funding (LDSS)

Often fully covered for eligible employers, with a simple reclaim process.
You book and pay for places, complete the programme, then claim reimbursement from LDSS. We guide you through the steps and provide a claim-ready evidence pack (attendance and certificates) to make it straightforward for your team.

How we help you claim

Confirm eligibility and the current LDSS position for your area
Book places, complete the programme
Receive a simple pack with attendance and certificate reports for your claim

What you do

Keep your ASC-WDS record up to date
Book and pay for the programme
Submit your LDSS claim within the stated window, normally within three months of completion
Retain our evidence pack and your proof of payment for reimbursement

Who it is for

Team leaders, seniors and deputies
Registered managers and those preparing to step up
New managers who need structure, coaching and confidence
Service improvement and quality leads

Help Shape the Launch, We Want Your Input!

We’re inviting care providers like you to share feedback before we go live.

Your insights will help us tailor these programmes to the real-world needs of the social care community.

👉 Register Your Interest to find out more›

By registering, you’ll:

Be the first to hear when the programmes launch.

Receive early access and funding guidance.

Help shape the future of leadership training in adult social care.