I am appalled at some of the egos that are promoted into senior manager roles. Bullying cultures, stress & lack of support are all the reasons why lots of us won’t work permanently for Local Authorities. It’s not just money but agency pay is not good enough yet the media perpetuate a myth of excessive cost.

I don’t encourage others to give up their pensions & have never taken referral bonuses from agencies. The agency are the ones who win they don’t care & offer little or no support for the cut they make.

The cap won’t work in the long term it never does.

Social worker pay is a joke when compared to other jobs. I would leave social work 22 years in and I think a lot of advanced practitioners would do the same…why bother…why have the hassle.

I agree pay us a least a 50K salary which is fair rate of pay for a social worker and then they may not be the issue with recruitment and retention.

I feel the same

Picture this: a group of bureaucrats sitting around a table, sipping their overpriced coffee, and suddenly one of them has an epiphany: “Why let supply and demand dance their waltz when we can choreograph it ourselves?” And just like that, price capping for social work vacancies is born.

But oh, the irony! It’s like watching a cat preach the virtues of vegetarianism while licking its lips over a mouse. The government, champion of free markets by day, turns into the caped crusader of regulation by night, swooping in to save the day (or so they claim).

Meanwhile, in the real world, social workers scratch their heads in bewilderment, wondering why the rules of economics seem to apply differently when it’s their livelihoods at stake. But fear not, dear citizens, for in the land of government logic, inconsistency is the only constant. And so, the saga of price capping in social work vacancies continues, a comedic tragedy in the theater of bureaucracy