The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) has released details of the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care (HSC) Workforce at 31 March 2014. This statistical publication
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The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has identified an error in the data supplied by the Care Inspectorate for 2012 which was published in the Scottish Social Service Workforce Data
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A refreshed Adult Social Care Workforce Recruitment and Retention Strategy has been launched by Skills for Care. The refreshed strategy builds upon the achievements of the first ever strategy launched
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A leading care home figure has warned of a critical lack of trained nurses following the closure of two homes in Wales. Mario Creft, Chair of Care Forum Wales, said
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The Government is to clamp down on abuses of zero-hours contracts by allowing people to work for more than one employer. Business Secretary Vince Cable said “unscrupulous” employers had been
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In its first report on the work of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the Commons Health Committee has backed the HCPC’s proposals for a ‘negative register’ of care
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Only one in fourteen social care professionals believe that changes implemented since 2007 have had a positive impact on the sector, according to recruitment agency Randstad Care. The survey of
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Workers on “zero hours” contracts could be given the right to request fixed term working, Business Secretary Vince Cable has said. Mr Cable said that ministers were actively looking at
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Workers on zero hours contracts are often afraid to look for other jobs and feel excluded from the sense of security given to full-time employees, according to a new study.
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This report examines the challenges facing mental health social work, and offers a blueprint for a fast-track programme that could better recruit and train high-calibre graduates for the profession. The
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