Care-worker training for the Japanese and British markets, with the credential recognised on return

A first step

Visit two recruitment agencies that already place care workers abroad and ask what their candidates fail on: the language, the practical test or the paperwork. Then ask one nursing home at home whether they would hire a returnee with that credential and pay more for it. The agency's list of gaps is your course; the employer's yes is your promise to students.

Who pays first

A school leaver's family who would pay course fees for a credential that leads to a care job in Japan or Britain and still counts at home afterwards.

What leaves today

Care workers leave with skills nobody at home recognises on their return; a recognised credential brings that experience back as a qualified workforce.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. EightWhat It Costs to Go First
  Remittances and what it costs the first one to go
• Ch. SixteenThe Bridge
  The institutions already in existence that could carry value back

More from cluster 17

• 341Home-care agencies with trained, vetted carers, booked and paid from abroad
• 342Assisted-living homes for the parents of Sri Lankans abroad, with the standard published and inspected
• 343A daily check-in service: a nurse's visit, a photograph, a message to the child abroad
• 344Medical escort services: a nurse takes the parent to the appointment and reports back
• 345Pharmacy delivery with the prescription managed and the refills tracked
• 346Dementia day-care centres, which hardly exist yet and are needed everywhere

All 20 ideas in this cluster