Workforce
Workforce
Our calls to action
With these calls we hope to inspire the public and politicians to support and drive forward the changes we need to transform adult social care.
We recognise that by valuing our social care workforce, this will attract more people into the career and ensure they stay there for longer.
This is paramount, given the hundreds of thousands of roles that remain unfilled. We recognise we need a long-term national plan, that is properly funded, to ensure we have the people with the right skills in the right place, to give people choice and control over their lives..
Short-term: Improve the pay terms of social care workers
Value the people who work in care in the same way we value the people who work in other sectors by ensuring that councils, providers and individual employers have the resources to pay care workers, the majority of whom are women, above National Living Wage – which must be funded nationally. A clear fully funded plan should be laid out within the First 100 Days of a new Government.
Medium-term: A national strategy to solve the social care staffing crisis
By 2029, we want a clear fully funded plan being implemented to recruit, train and retain the social care workforce we’ll need across England to provide the quality care and support for everyone to live the life they want. That will mean more social workers, occupational therapists and other practitioners who support people to stay well at home and in their community.
Long-term: A social care workforce to deliver world class care and support
Implementation of the fully-funded workforce plan means we have enough people with the right skills, in the right place to ensure people
can have choice and control over how they live their lives, both now and in the future.