The Government has said it expects its mandatory vaccination policy to help reduce shortages from care home staff being off due to coronavirus, ahead of a feared exodus next week.
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The Government has launched a recruitment campaign to fill more than 100,000 empty roles in England’s social care sector. A TV advert and social media campaign will tell the public
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Including services such as adult social care and community justice in the proposed new National Care Service would be a “grave error”, ministers have been warned. The organisation Solace, which
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Ed Balls has held a myriad of job titles over the course of his career. But while a decade serving as a Labour MP culminated in his appointment as shadow
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The latest Skills for Care data estimates that for the adult social care workforce to grow proportionally to the projected number of people aged 65 and over, an extra 490,000
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Social care providers will be “left out in the cold” this winter by a lack of measures in the Budget to address the sector’s growing crisis, groups have warned. English
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The NHS backlog will take longer to clear without extra funding for social care in this week’s Budget, bodies representing councils and healthcare groups have warned. The social care sector
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Council bosses have warned against the creation of a national care service, telling MPs it is “not the way forward” to solve the sector’s problems. They also said the Government’s
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A recent survey by the Independent Children’s Homes Association (ICHA) has revealed that recruitment and retention in the sector is ‘horrific’. While the tone and sentiment of the report is
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Last year’s State of Care was written as the country fearfully anticipated a second wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths. This year, the success of the vaccination programme has given
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