Category: Social Care
Biggest visa boost for social care as Health and Care Visa scheme expanded GOV.UK Government decision to put social care workers on the Shortage Occupation List welcomed NHS Confederation Social care: Immigration rules to be relaxed to recruit staff BBC News Social care workers will access fast-track visas for a year, government says The Independent Immigration rules to be […]
Social care services rationed amid staff shortages due to Covid, bosses warn Clydebank Post
Social care staff in Wales to receive the Real Living Wage, Welsh Government announces ITV News
LGA response to “People at the heart of care: adult social care reform white paper” Local Government Association
Councils call for billions of pounds to be diverted from NHS to social care The Guardian
Influential Figures Dictating Children’s Social Care Policy Via Government ‘Back Door’ – Byline Times Byline Times
Adult social care workforce survey: background quality and methodology GOV.UK
Norfolk care boss calls for hospitality staff to be ‘loaned’ to social care to tackle crisis ITV News
Government backs social care with record funding GOV.UK Government provides record funding to support the social care sector News-Medical.Net Government backs social care with £1.4bn worth of funding | Public Sector Executive Public Sector Executive £300m boost for adult social care workforce through winter Communitycare.co.uk New social care plans risk backlash over failure to tackle England’s winter crisis The Guardian […]
Frank Thomson (not his real name) worked as safeguarding locum in 2018 but left after feeling unsafe Frank Thomson* has been a social worker for more than a decade, but describes a short stint in Bradford council’s child safeguarding team as “without exaggerating, the scariest place I’ve ever worked in”. This week, the spotlight has […]