Today's launch of the adult social care workforce strategy 'feels like we are on the cusp of finally taking action to value our care workforce properly, for the amazing work they do every day', said Anna Hemmings, CEO of ADASS. “People that work in care and support transform people lives and enable millions of us facing disability and illness, to live well, take part in our community and work, if we can. Yet our, mainly female, care workforce is undervalued and poorly paid, reflected by the fact there are over 130,000 vacancies across the sector. “The Skills for Care workforce strategy sets out how to build and retain a first-class care workforce, including structured training and development, and improving pay and conditions to make social care a career aspiration. Along with the Government’s commitment in the Kings Speech on fair pay in social care yesterday, this strategy feels like an important step forward. We look forward to working with the Government and our stakeholders to making it a reality.
For the first time ever the adult social care sector has come together to develop the Workforce Strategy that it needs. We need the Strategy to ensure we have enough of the right people with the right skills to provide the best possible care and support for the people who draw on it. https://lnkd.in/eYmUPuJ8
Director at Xvir Healthcare Ltd
3moGreat to have a starting point - one of the biggest challenges is acknowledging that our younger workforce need the opportunity to become experienced!! we need to make this a career choice - lets promote how important it is to care and then hope this and successive governments put their money where their mouths are. The independent sector deals with financial pressures equally as the NHS and Local Government - sometime more so. We shouldn't have to wait for inflationary increases to ensure we pay our staff the statutory increases in NLW!! Come on lets get acts together!!