Lombardy: the regional government is providing training for over 1,400 new healthcare workers

(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) – To meet the need to recruit new professionals in the social care and healthcare sector, the Lombardy Region has organised training programmes for 1,400 OSS (social and healthcare workers) and ASA (social care assistants). These new workers will take up their posts after attending specialised courses funded by the Lombardy Region through the 2021–2027 ESF+ programme and passing their qualifying examinations. Indeed, the call for applications has now closed, having received a positive response in terms of both structural coverage and participation across the entire region.

“Thanks to close collaboration with the Department for Welfare, which helped us identify specific vacancies at care homes in Lombardy, we were able to provide a very effective response in a short space of time,” said the Regional Councillor for Education, Training and Employment for the Lombardy Region, Simona Tironi, explaining that “the funded courses fulfil a specific and fundamental social function, as they are aimed at unemployed people who would be unlikely to have the financial resources to cover the cost of private training, offering them an opportunity to re-enter the labour market”.

In order to respond promptly to the needs expressed by the local community, the social and healthcare training system in Lombardy has, in fact, adopted a two-pronged strategic approach, combining social inclusion with the competitiveness of care services: social inclusion and the competitiveness of services.