During 2020 and 2021 Age Concern Birmingham (ACB) have played a leading role in the MiCare project partnership which has seen the development of training materials aimed at people from migrant communities who wish to enter the paid caring professions across Europe.
The project has been funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, ACB has worked successfully with our partners in Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Spain and Italy to produce a gap-analysis report that explores training for paid carers in our respective countries, as well as issues affecting migrants who wish to train and work as carers in Europe. The report showed some interesting differences in care training as well as lots of areas of similarity.
The second part of the project has seen the development of training units around language, care skills and wider skills enhancement. As we approach the final phase of our project, an online training platform is being designed which will allow migrants to download the training units. These will be available in 5 different languages for each partner country. During January and February the platform is being tested and evaluated and some train-the-trainer events will take place in each country.
If you work with migrant communities in the UK and you would like to access our training platform either to help us evaluate it in January 2022 or to use it to support your service users from a migrant community when it is launched, please contact:
Peter Millington - UK MiCare coordinator at this email address:
