https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/07/19/overseas-recruitment-drives-latest-growth-in-adult-social-care-workforce/ Social Work News & Social Care Jobs Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/07/19/overseas-recruitment-drives-latest-growth-in-adult-social-care-workforce/#comment-345222 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:47:04 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=210216#comment-345222 “The government should take action… to improve the pay… for people working in social care.” The difficulty with this ostensibly straightforward proposal is that the entire economic model for social care services has not developed to accommodate attractive remuneration hence their ever growing reliance on large numbers of female workers from impoverished/developing countries. The above-listed strategy recommendations really need to start happening immediately to avoid very serious problems in the coming decade and beyond.

]]> https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/07/19/overseas-recruitment-drives-latest-growth-in-adult-social-care-workforce/#comment-344960 Sat, 20 Jul 2024 16:07:26 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=210216#comment-344960 Maybe pay needs to be looked at when I started out the care sector 30 years ago the pay was higher than retail and factory pay by 2-_3 pounds more per hour. Now some retail and cleaning jobs pay more. Care work now mostly pays the minimum wage or a few pence above.

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