UK social care sector in crisis due to staff shortages
Jessica and I have been doing some really interesting work on the challenges facing rural health and care. Recruitment and retention is the biggest challenge of all. This article tells us more reporting:
On any one day, there are 90,000 vacancies for social care jobs in England, according to Skills for Care, which on Thursdayholds a conference on the issue. And NHS Jobs has more than 15,000 vacancies on its website.
Last year’s report by Skills for Care on the state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England estimated that just under 340,000 social care employees leave their jobs each year. On average, in care homes there are about 2,800 unfilled manager jobs at any one time while, despite concerted recruitment drives, vacancy rates for social workers in the statutory sector have jumped from 7.3% in 2012 to 11% in 2016, and turnover rates continue to climb