Lime Vine – learning and development experts
We have over 30 years experience of learning and development in social care settings.
We understand the importance of quality care provision and ensuring that those working in adult social care have the right skills and knowledge. Through our years of experience we also understand the challenges that you face providing the best quality care.
We work in partnership with you to enable you to identify your care team’s training needs and provide solutions that enable your team to be the best they can be.

Why use us?
We understand there are many training providers out there, so why use us?
Here are 5 reasons:
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We provide innovative learning solutions that are proven to work. They are effective because the social care learning is focused on your team; the context you work in and all examples are relevant to your care home setting and have daily application.
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We embed evaluation strategies into all our learning solutions. Importantly these reports provide you with the evidence you need to show that learning has taken place, including change in behaviour and attitude as well as activity reports.
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Our adult social care learning and development tools are engaging and innovative, using the latest technology.
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The development of our products is based on the latest research into adult learning. Our years of experience in workforce development tells us that measurement of outcomes is critical. We therefore provide a range of tools and reports to measure success.
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We offer cost effective learning solutions. For example, our annual package offers face to face training, e-learning, gamification, scenario based learning and interactive learning tools for your whole team on topics and issues relevant to them.
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Gamification – why is it becoming so popular?
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Care home inspections – here to make your life easier
Working in partnership with care homes to enable achievement of the highest standards. As a provider of residential care you will know the five overarching standards demonstrated by care homes offering ‘good’ or higher provision. For each of the five standards: safe, effective, care, responsive and well-led, there are many requirements to evidence when you […]

Evaluating learning – it’s not about how many or how happy – it’s about how far.
In the environment of adult social care, with high staff turnover rates, it is a constant challenge for managers to ensure their teams are up to date with their training requirements and getting the most out of the training that they receive. With average turnover rates reported by Skills for Care at 30.7% it can […]

3 things that make a difference to team performance
Creating a perfect team is as difficult as making a perfect cake. With any cake recipe you can have a multitude of ingredients, a little tweak here, a bit of vanilla there, all in search of perfection. Some prefer whisking, some prefer beating, some prefer cold ingredients and some say room temperature is better…quite frankly […]