All over the world, COVID-19 has placed huge demands and stresses on social care workers – but what supportive policy initiatives have been attempted in response?
Skills For Care’s Workforce Intelligence Team (the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England) This report provides information about the adult social care sector, including its size and structure, employment information, recruitment and retention issues, workforce demographics, pay, qualification rates, and future workforce forecasts. Adult social care is a growing sector that, in 2020/21, comprised around 17,700 organisations across 39,000 care-providing locations, with a workforce of around 1.67 million jobs. The number of full-time equivalent jobs was estimated at 1.19 million and the number of people working...
Recently the Scottish Government published its consultation on a National Care Service. All of us involved in social care must plan our next steps with care and mutuality – while paying urgent regard to the crisis of the present time. By Donald Macaskill
