ADASS responds to Skills for Care’s ‘Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care in England’
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On 18 July 2024, Skills for Care launched their Social Care Workforce Strategy.
The recommendations and commitments of the national, fifteen-year strategy are focused around three core themes: attracting and retaining staff, training, and transformation.
In response, ADASS CEO, Anna Hemmings said:
“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. With people at the heart of social care, tackling this recruitment and retention challenge is a pressing priority for our Government and social care leaders- in our latest survey, Directors of Adult Social Care told us improving pay for care workers is the number one way to improve recruitment and retention.
”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 we are on the cusp of finally taking action to value our care workers properly, for the amazing work they do every day. We look forward to working with the Government and our stakeholders to making it a reality.”
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