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Workforce Development Zone
Fareport Training is an established family run training provider with extensive experience supporting employers across both the public and private sectors. We work closely with organisations to deliver high-quality, flexible apprenticeship programmes that align with their operational needs, ensuring learners develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviours required to succeed in their roles while meeting the requirements of the apprenticeship standard.
We are committed to delivering high-quality learning that achieves meaningful outcomes for both learners and employers. Our performance is measured through a combination of learner achievement, assessment outcomes, satisfaction and external quality assurance.
Refocus with Reece aims to support families and care teams to better interpret, understand, and respond to behaviours in dementia more intentionally and consistently, promoting calmer days. It comes from 20 years of frontline dementia care and care management experience, backed by dementia studies masters education, and aims to address an overwhelming need to apply practical skills and build confidence to avoid reactive care and crises, and to build a consistent foundation of psychological safety to prevent escalations on the first place. Difficult behaviours in dementia are not inevitable.
Working towards reducing crises, reducing use of PRN medications to manage, avoiding emergency admissions and better interpreting behavioural incidents that cause staff stress and burnout, through a shared, structured understanding, regular behaviour reviews, better use of knowledge in care planning and, more importantly, application and care delivery, with support for service oversight to monitor, improve and embed best practice
Established in 2001, Skills for Care is the only national charity focused on building a stronger workforce for the quality adult social care we all need. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.
Our role is to work across the whole system to understand the key drivers of workforce change using insight, data and evidence. We provide managers and those involved in the delivery of social care with guidance on best practice, tools, resources and intelligence to support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture. This combination of strategic and operational activity is the cornerstone of our reach and insight into the sector.
The University of Brighton is a public university based in Brighton on the south coast of England. Its roots can be traced back to 1858 when the Brighton School of Art was opened in the Royal Pavilion.
We deliver Student Nursing Associate Apprenticeship course, Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship course, and Student Nursing Associate and/or Student Nurse placement opportunities.
We work closely with employers of apprentices and particularly if this is the employers first apprentice. We will provide support from admission to qualification. We also provide support for student placement from preparation sessions, to support during the placement and also provide follow up after.
The apprenticeships are a great way to develop the social care workforce from Healthcare support worker to Nursing and Midwifery Council registrant. As a result qualified staff will enhance care delivery. Student placements offer great insight to social care work and service delivery and positive student placements can also promote recruitment into the workforce.
Care Industry Suppliers Zone
Apetito is the UK’s leading supplier of nutritious, great-tasting meals to the health and social care sector. Our extensive range is developed by expert chefs and in-house dietitians to support a wide variety of dietary and clinical needs, without compromising on flavour or quality. From everyday favourites to specialist texture modified meals, we combine nutritional expertise with culinary skill to deliver consistent, reliable solutions for care settings. Working in true partnership with providers, we help create inclusive, enjoyable dining experiences that promote dignity, independence and wellbeing, ensuring mealtimes remain a valued and meaningful part of daily life.
We’ll be serving our meals on the day, giving you the chance to try them for yourself and experience the quality first hand. It’s the perfect way to see how our dishes can bring confidence and enjoyment to every mealtime. We’d love your feedback and to chat about how we can support your care setting.
Running a care home comes with many responsibilities and ensuring safe, reliable, and compliant waste management is one of them. At the Business Waste & Recycling Service, we provide local, cost-effective waste and recycling solutions designed to meet the specific needs of care homes.
Based in the heart of Chichester, West Sussex, we have the largest waste and recycling fleet in the area. This allows us to provide reliable, regular, and flexible collections all year round.
Managing waste and recycling shouldn't be a burden. Whether you're a small independent care home or part of a care home group, our tailored waste management solutions are designed to fit your needs and budget. We understand that care home professionals are spinning 101 plates and waste probably gets put to the bottom of the priority list. We are here to take the hassle away from you and can manage everything with expert care and attention so you don't have to worry.
richem South is a family-run chemical manufacturer based in Kent, specialising in cleaning and hygiene solutions tailored for the care sector and the NHS. We pride ourselves on exceptional customer service, delivering cost-effective, high-quality products that help maintain safe and hygienic environments.
In addition to our extensive range of cleaning chemicals, we also supply medical equipment, floor cleaning machines, linens, and towels.
Our service offering is truly end-to-end, including COSHH awareness training and risk assessments to ensure compliance, safety, and peace of mind for our clients.
Support Services Zone
Care Choices has committed itself to helping people who need information on social care and support. Our information has been developed with experts so you know Care Choices is a source you can trust.
Care Choices a leading and well-established multi-media publisher to the social care sector since 1994. Our expanding portfolio includes publications, websites and events for senior executives in care and support, care seekers and their close relatives, families of children with additional needs and the practitioners who work with them. We interact with all facets of the sector from the regulator and government through to providers and the public.
Care Choices is the proud publisher of the annual East Sussex, Brighton & Hove, Care & Support Services Directory and also the West Sussex Care Guide. Both publications provide important editorial advice and guidance on choosing and paying for care and support and also include the list of all CQC registered home care and care home providers within the region. This is available free of charge in print and online.
Care England, a registered charity and the leading voice of adult social care providers in England, represents members delivering care to over 120,000 individuals. We support care for older people, those with long-term conditions, learning disabilities, mental health needs, and autism, advocating for a united, quality-focused, and independent care sector.
Membership gives you a voice through our lobbying, advocacy work, and special interest groups, while practical support through informative events, webinars and white papers helps providers to focus on delivering high-quality care. Our Supporter Member Programme provides practical solutions to the everyday challenges faced by care providers, with members benefiting from exclusive discounts, savings and support.
Christie & Co is the market-leader in specialist advice and brokerage within the elderly care & living sector. Our award-winning team covers agency, brokerage, valuation, consultancy, investment and development, with our clientele spanning the breadth of the market; from large institutional investors and corporate operators to individual home owners.
Christie & Co are unmatched in our reach into the care home market, both regionally and on a national scale. We work with providers of all sizes, types and models with our advice backed by the data available thanks to the volume of care homes we work with each year. Our wider group is also able to offer finance and insurance brokerage.
We are able to support care business owners with their plans, whether that's to buy, grow or sell within the sector - backed by regulated and professional and advisory services.
Citation has been supporting UK businesses for over 30 years, helping organisations manage the essential areas of HR & Employment Law, Health & Safety and compliance with confidence.
Our expertise includes former regulatory inspectors, HR professionals, solicitors and Health & Safety specialists, meaning our clients receive practical advice from people who understand the realities of running a care service.
We also work closely with leading care organisations across the UK, including Care England, Scottish Care, National Care Association and National Care Forum, as well as more than 35 regional care associations. This experience helps us provide support that is not only compliant, but relevant to the day-to-day challenges care providers face.
Our care-specific tools and services, including CQC Pro and mock inspections, also help providers understand where improvements may be needed, prepare for regulatory scrutiny and work towards achieving the best possible outcomes for their service.
Lottie is a free service that helps families find the UK's best care homes, home care agencies, and retirement living properties. We were founded in 2021 by brothers Will and Chris Donnelly, and today we work with more than 6,000 vetted providers across the UK.
Found's purpose is to simplify your team's admin through smart technology, while seamlessly fitting into the everyday operations of your care home or home care agency. Our 3 modules (CRM, occupancy & billing) give you one clean system for the full customer journey.
Found eliminates the need for paper-based systems or spreadsheets - reducing the risk of missing follow-ups and maximising the potential revenue for you. This easy-to-use tool automatically pulls enquiries to ensure no leads are lost.
Lester Aldridge is a full-service law firm with a nationally recognised Health & Social Care team. We provide specialist legal advice and representation to health and social care providers, including care homes, domiciliary care agencies, supported living services, children's services, GP practices and other care businesses. Our expertise includes regulatory compliance, CQC and Ofsted matters, safeguarding, inquests, employment issues, commercial contracts, business acquisitions and disposals, dispute resolution, and healthcare sector due diligence.
Our Health & Social Care team has over 30 years of sector experience and is recognised nationally for its specialist expertise. What differentiates us is our deep understanding of the operational, regulatory and commercial challenges faced by care providers. We offer practical, commercially focused advice from lawyers who work exclusively and extensively within the health and social care sector. Our multidisciplinary approach means clients can access specialist support across all legal issues affecting their organisation through a single trusted adviser.
Rachael Crook founded Lifted in 2024 after building and selling her own care business to help care providers find and keep great staff. Since then, we've partnered with 500+ providers across the UK, including some of the biggest care home groups in the country. We focus on building with our partners. Since starting out by building a talent pool of 50,000 care workers and placing 1000s of candidates, the Lifted platform provides everything from screening to onboarding to compliance. Alongside this we have a team of immigration experts and an ex-Home Office inspector on the team to play the vital role of protecting sponsor licences.
Myley provides fully managed resident outings that create joy, connection and activity for people living in care homes.
We know how valuable trips out can be for residents, but we also know they can be difficult for homes to organise consistently. Planning, transport, staffing, risk assessments and accessibility can all become barriers, especially when care homes rely on expensive minibuses or community transport that isn’t always available, accessible or reliable.
Myley provides a fully managed experience service, not just transport. We remove the barriers that often prevent care homes from taking residents out regularly, including accessible transport, planning, staffing pressures and pressure on the day. All our outings are designed around residents’ needs and interests, and we offer support for residents with mobility needs, dementia and anxiety around leaving the home. We offer accessible vehicles, trained Tour Leaders, personalised planning and impact reporting that gives care homes a reliable way to deliver meaningful experiences.
We support research delivery by building research capacity and capability to ensure the health and care system can deliver research across hospitals, primary care, community and residential settings.
We can support your organisation to get involved in research by sharing knowledge, training and varies opportunities to get involved in research, including; research studies, events, training, funding calls and workforce development.
Involvement in research has been shown to improve outcomes for the workforce, patient/clients/residents within that service. It can provide opportunities and a sense of hope and meaning to someone's experience. Research can also contribute to a higher CQC rating, under the "well led" Key Line of Enquiry, with overlap into other areas.
Today, Quality of Care is evolving into a strategic business partner for care providers. Our aim is to help care providers run stronger businesses. Whether that's understanding the true cost of care, improving business systems or developing leaders, everything we do is focused on helping providers understand their business better, improve performance and build organisations that remain strong for years to come.
Unlike generic business software, every Quality of Care solution has been designed specifically for adult social care using the realities providers face every day. They help providers understand the true cost of delivering care, identify where profitability is being lost, help with cost control, negotiate fees with greater confidence and make informed commercial decisions that protect the long-term sustainability of their organisation.
Over the coming years we'll continue expanding our suite of business management tools, giving providers greater visibility over financial performance, workforce management, operational efficiency, business continuity and business performance.
SESCA (South East Social Care Alliance) is a not-for-profit company, which brings together south east care associations across the region to promote best practice, support the workforce and advocate for the South East’s adult social care sector.
Since its launch in 2024, our Displaced Worker Recruitment Support Scheme has provided coordinated, region-wide support to help match care providers with internationally recruited care professionals.
By securing new sponsorship for hundreds of vulnerable displaced workers and equipping thousands of workers and providers with clear, trusted guidance, the scheme has strengthened workforce stability and sustained care delivery during a period of unprecedented uncertainty.
SightWatcher, a leading mobile eye care provider, partners directly with care providers to improve resident health and quality of life outcomes through specialised eye care. Pairing clinical expertise with accessible digital records, SightWatcher delivers a seamless, high-quality service that reduces administration and protects resident vision.
Our mobile eye care service directly supports members by addressing critical risks around falls and dementia care.
Residents with dementia and vision loss face up to double the risk of physical falls (RNIB, 2021). Proactive eye care empowers care providers to reduce fall-related injuries, boost resident independence, and ease frontline staff workloads; raising care standards with minimal operational disruption.
Taking The Pixels is a video production and photography company connecting businesses to their audiences through digital content.
Billy and Jack started making videos at the age of 14 when at school together and now at 28 years of age are producing video content across all business sectors. We niche on our behaviours and relationships we have with our clients, many of which are in the health and care sector.
Social care is an emotive subject, and video content portrays emotion in the output. Giving prospects peace of mind, confidence, trust and social proof - that they are the right providers for the services they are offering.
Tresacare supports care organisations and care workers through wellbeing programmes, training, and HR consulting.
Its flagship offering, the Wellbeing Gym, provides ongoing wellbeing activities, peer support, and tools to help care workers manage stress and burnout.
Tresacare differentiates itself by focusing specifically on the wellbeing and emotional resilience of care workers, rather than offering generic workplace training. Its approach combines practical soft-skills training with ongoing wellbeing support, peer connection and bespoke programmes tailored to the needs of each care organisation. This care-sector expertise and focus on long-term wellbeing, burnout prevention and staff retention sets Tresacare apart from more traditional training providers.
Overall, Tresacare aims to improve care-worker wellbeing, retention, and ultimately the quality of care.
Digital Technology Zone
Every minute matters in homecare. So when it's impossible to work any harder, Birdie's technology helps you work smarter.
It works by connecting everyone and everything: care management, auditing, rostering, finance, and workforce management in one platform. Birdie then automates routine tasks and surfaces insights, so you can stop juggling systems and start making data-driven decisions. Respond quickly to issues, prove quality to regulators, and create plans with confidence.
Unlike competitors, our system is built as one, so care management, scheduling and finance work together seamlessly. This saves time and reduces errors. Our platform gives you the ability to see everything, turning data into clear insights with real-time alerts and a unique Q-Score to keep you inspection-ready.
Finally, we believe in partnership, not just software. With Birdie, you get unlimited expert support and training included, ensuring you have the guidance you need to thrive.
AquaTime is a Danish health technology company focused on helping older and vulnerable people stay better hydrated. Developed through experience within health and social care, our mission is to make hydration support simpler, more proactive and more personalised - helping people remain healthier and independent for longer while reducing pressure on care teams.
AquaTime provides a smart drinking cup connected to a secure digital platform. The cup uses personalised light, sound and vibration reminders to encourage people to drink throughout the day. It automatically records drinking activity, sending accurate digital fluid levels to AquaTimes electronic dashboard or patent records, allowing care teams to identify changes, review patterns and provide targeted hydration support.
The system provides useful hydration insights while reducing the burden of manual monitoring. Prompts and daily targets can be tailored to the individual, supporting a more person-centred approach to hydration.
Camascope is a specialist UK eMAR (electronic Medication Administration Record) provider supporting more than 3,500 care organisations across the UK to manage medication safely, efficiently and with greater visibility. Our technology connects care providers, pharmacies and GPs, helping teams reduce medication risk, simplify day-to-day processes and spend less time on administrative burden.
Our software integrates with leading digital care planning systems including PCS, Nourish and Predicaire, helping bring medication information together with the wider care record so teams can access a more complete, connected view of the people they support.
Whether supporting an independent care home or a large national provider, the platform can accommodate complex medication schedules, offline working, GP proxy ordering and detailed reporting, backed by 24/7 support.
PCS provides a complete suite of digital tools designed to support every aspect of care delivery and care home operations. Our solutions help care providers reduce administration, improve compliance and deliver better outcomes for the people they support.
Our software is trusted by more than 8,400 care homes and captures one of the UK's richest social care datasets, with over 13 million care notes recorded daily. This enables us to deliver powerful insights, helping providers benchmark performance, identify emerging care needs and make evidence-based decisions. PCS brings together care planning, medication management, wellbeing, operations and intelligence, helping providers save time, improve efficiency and deliver consistently high-quality care.
By digitising key care processes, PCS enables care teams to spend more time with the people they support and less time on administration.
Evaran's home care management platform, CareLineLive, is trusted by over 650 home care agencies and domiciliary care providers across the UK and Australia, offering an all-in-one, cloud-based solution covering rostering, scheduling, care planning, care monitoring (ECM), eMAR, payroll, invoicing and the Care Circle portal for friends and family.
CareLineLive is an NHS England Assured Supplier for Digital Social Care Records (DSCR), accredited to ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 9001 (Quality Management) and Cyber Essentials Plus, and hosted on secure AWS servers with data stored in the UK (or Australia for customers there) for full data sovereignty.
We also now include a compliance tool as part of the CareLineLive subscription supporting home care providers improve, maintain and evidence CQC and CIW ratings while managing their businesses more efficiently and overall providing better care.
MySense helps people live safely and independently at home for longer, while supporting Adult Social Care and health teams to act earlier and with confidence.
MySense combines discreet in-home sensors with a comfortable wearable device to build a picture of what's typical for the individual.
When a critical event occurs – such as a fall – the system responds immediately. Falls trigger an automatic call to our 24/7 Alarm Receiving Centre, where trained staff assess the situation and coordinate the appropriate response. For other events, an instant alert is sent via the app to family members or carers.
In addition to these real-time alerts, MySense also monitors for longer-term changes in behaviour - such as disrupted sleep, reduced mobility, or altered bathroom routines - and presents these as insights to help families and carers spot potential issues early and make more informed decisions.
Pontosense's mission is to enhance safety and peace of mind for older adults and their families through privacy-first sensing that works without cameras, microphones or wearables. Our flagship care product, Silver Shield, is used by care providers in 20+ countries and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Forbes.
Silver Shield is a contactless, room-level sensor that continuously and passively detects an older adult's safety status and daily routines with no cameras, microphones or wearables. Real-time alerts for falls, bed exits, and room exits along with automated wellness analyses flow into a centralized web dashboard so staff can intervene sooner alongside a mobile app for on-the-go alert handling. It's suitable for bedrooms, bathrooms, and private living spaces, and scales from a single room to organization-wide deployments.
Recreo VR is a UK-based VR service helping to expand the worlds of people living in care. Founded in 2021, our mission began with a simple idea: to bring meaningful moments back to people living with dementia.
Co-founder Sam Rooker experienced this first-hand when a visit to the beach brought a remarkable response from his grandmother, who was non-verbal and living with dementia. She smiled, pointed and began trying to speak — a powerful reminder of how meaningful experiences can create moments of connection and expression.
We provide easy-to-use virtual reality headsets designed specifically for care homes and one-to-one sessions. Each headset comes pre-loaded with our carer-led app — no controllers, no Wi-Fi needed, and simple enough for any staff member to run. Residents can enjoy immersive experiences from coastal walks and beautiful gardens to reminiscence content they actively request.
Social-Ability provides an interactive light therapy platform that is purposefully designed to support people living with cognitive and physical impairments, including dementia, strokes and palliative care needs. Having launched in 2020, we support over 1,000 care settings across the UK, from large care operators to independents.
It can be very challenging to support residents living with dementia and other cognitive impairments, which can also impact staff wellbeing. The difficulty is often knowing how to engage, entertain and relax residents - this is exactly how the Happiness Programme supports, through its immersive and intuitively engaging experiences.
The Happiness Programme consists of a series of interactive games and experiences, which respond to the body movements of residents, helping to create intuitive engagement, stimulation and relaxation. It can be enjoyed by all, but is more specifically designed to support residents living with complex care needs.
Sussex Digital In Reach Team provides a free platform on which Care Providers across Sussex can access free advice and support on technology, digitalisation and data protection. We are run by the care providers for the care providers, overseen by your Care Associations, both West Sussex Partners and East Sussex RCA. All of our materials, training and webinars are open to you and completely free of charge.
Our team provides free advice and support on a range of digital projects
The South East Cyber Resilience Centre is a police-led partnership with academia and businesses aimed at improving cyber resilience in businesses in the South East of England.
Using a combination of police officers and cyber talent, the Cyber Resilience Centre for the South East supports and helps protect small business, SMEs and supply chain businesses and third sector organisations in the region against cyber crime.
Covering the areas of Thames Valley, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, we are working with local Universities and the Police forces, which provides us with access to the latest local as well as national information on emerging cyber threats, criminal trends, best practice for cyber resilience and new technology to provide you with timely guidance to prepare and protect your business, staff and clients from cyber criminals.
Unique IQ is an award-winning provider of home care management software, supporting care providers since 2006. Our platform helps domiciliary care, supported living and Shared Lives organisations run safer, more efficient services, covering everything from electronic call monitoring and rostering to eMAR, digital care planning and auditing.
Founded on the belief that great care is easier to deliver when the technology behind it just works, our mission is to give carers time back to spend on what matters most: the people they support. Today, that mission is increasingly powered by AI. We are embedding intelligent, time-saving tools across our platform, from AI-assisted care planning and auditing to smarter ways of capturing and evidencing care, helping providers cut paperwork dramatically while improving compliance and quality.
What sets Unique IQ apart is a reliable, easy-to-use software, meaningful AI, strong security, customer-led development and support from people who truly understand care: that's what makes the difference.
Nourish Care has been supporting providers in the UK for over ten years. We work with care and support providers of all shapes and sizes to wrap our system around your service and champion community-led, person-centred care. We co-produce our functionality with our users and the people they support, ensuring our innovations are in line with the evolving needs of care communities.
We offer a suite of solutions to support a wide range of services and suppliers. Our solutions are designed to wrap around your service, allowing providers to build the right digital ecosystem for their community, and keep the person supported firmly at the centre.
Our range of care software products offer modern, effective digital tools that unlock operationally sustainable, data literate, and community-centred processes for your business. Whether you work with 5 people or 50,000, we offer our users a digital partnership. One where we share our expertise and our experiences, so that together we’re improving the lives of everyone involved in care.
Care Association
We represent care providers and managers of adult social care services across Brighton and Hove and East Sussex. Our members include care homes, home care providers, hospices, supported living services, and voluntary community sector enterprises.
The association is governed by an executive committee of elected volunteers, including current and former care providers, who collaborate to lead decisions, plan events, and support the local care community.
We are dedicated to ensuring that the people of East Sussex and Brighton and Hove receive care from a professional, well-resourced, and modern integrated social care system.
West Sussex Partners and Care (WSPiC) and the Registered Care Association (RCA) are the care associations for West and East Sussex, supporting care providers in the delivery of their services and supporting them via various projects and initiatives. Members of the associations are represented at both local and national level in topics such as training and development, recruitment, investment to improve services and collective working.
Directors of both associations are here to speak with you today about how we can represent and support you in our work; together with our project managers for the new CPD framework and Sussex Digital In Reach Team.
Government Organisations
Local Authority covering Brighton & Hove.
The stand will focus on workforce development programmes, initiative and advice for people working in adult social care and support services based across Brighton & Hove.
Brighton & Hove providers can visit the stand to pick up copies of the new care worker handbook ‘Stop, Look, Care’.
The East Sussex stand will focus on workforce development, training and qualifications for people working in Health and Social Care. The East Sussex Qualification & Assessment Centre (ESQAC) offers a wide range of vocational qualifications and has been approved by a number of awarding bodies.
There will also be an interactive demonstration of the new East Sussex Learning
Local Authority covering West Sussex. The stand will focus on workforce development programmes, developing skills to be confident and competent, guidance and advice for people working in the independent, voluntary and statutory social care sector.
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Xhibit Solutions Ltd is a trusted UK provider of high-quality exhibition and display systems, including shell scheme stands, poster boards, modular stands and exhibition pods. With decades of industry experience, we support events of all sizes – from academic conferences to large-scale trade shows – delivering reliable, professional, and cost-effective solutions nationwide. Our team ensures seamless setup and breakdown, allowing organisers and exhibitors to focus on what matters most: engaging with their audience.
