Future-Proofing the Workforce: Exploring Emerging Skills Needs in Long-Term Care

Join us on the 17 September for a GOLTC Workforce Capacity and Capability Interest Group webinar

Date: 17 September 2025

Time: 9.30 to 10.30 BST, you can check your local time here.

Link: Register to join on Zoom

Delivering high-quality care starts with having the right skills in the right roles. As the aged care sector responds to a growing population with increasingly complex needs, understanding future skill and competency requirements is essential. This webinar will explore which areas of the workforce are most likely to require upskilling and how providers can prepare now to meet tomorrow’s care challenges—while also supporting job satisfaction and workforce stability.

Agenda:

• Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK).
• Introduction to the GOLTC Workforce Capacity and Capability Interest Group:  Victoria Cornell, ARIIA
• ‘Future skills for the workforce – the evidence-base’ – Paul Ross, ARIIA
• ‘Skills shortages in the long-term care sector in the EU’ – Jiri Branka CEDEFOP
• ‘NewDirection Care: An Australian Providers Perspective’ – Justin Chadwick, New Direction Care
• Discussion chaired by Victoria Cornell, ARIIA