Everycare staff have been donating Christmas food for our local Foodbank charity.
We have been overwhelmed with donations of Christmas goodies for local families who are in need over the festive period.
We’d like to say a big thank you to our staff for their generosity and their continued support with this worthy charity.
A recent report has highlighted the fact that in large areas of the UK local authorities are failing to pay care providers enough to provide a service that can break even, putting huge pressure on their ability to recruit and retain staff.
It means, despite losing staff faster than they can be replaced, companies are unable to raise wages, says the Homecare Association.
Low wages and feeling undervalued are key factors leading care staff to quit, says the report.
Councils say they do not have enough money to pay companies more.
The Homecare Association, which represents some 2,340 care providers, calculates the true minimum cost of providing an hour of homecare in the UK is £21.43.
To read the full story visit the BBC website.
There will be “a tsunami” of people without the care they need this winter unless staff shortages are tackled, England’s care watchdog is warning.
Social care staff are “exhausted and depleted,” says Care Quality Commission (CQC) chief executive, Ian Trenholm.
In a report, the CQC urges immediate work to address the problem of rising numbers of unfilled care sector jobs.
On Thursday, the government announced an extra £162.5m to boost the adult social care workforce.
This is in addition to £5.4bn earmarked for social care over the next three years from the government’s health and social care levy, which already includes £500m to be spent on the workforce.
The CQC welcomes the money but has a warning: “It must be used to enable new ways of working that recognise the interdependency of all health and care settings, not just to prop up existing approaches and to plug demand in acute care.”
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Shortages of care staff, who support older or disabled people in the community, are causing major problems for hospitals, the BBC has learned.
NHS chief executives say rising numbers of patients are stuck in hospitals in England due to a lack of care staff.
The situation is “dire”, according to NHS Providers, which represents health service trusts.
The government says extra funding and a regular recruitment drive will help boost the care workforce.
Care companies are facing acute problems in recruiting and retaining staff, according to a report which suggests there are now more unfilled care jobs than before the pandemic.
Shortages of care staff, who support older or disabled people in the community, are causing major problems for hospitals, the BBC has learned.
NHS chief executives say rising numbers of patients are stuck in hospitals in England due to a lack of care staff.
The situation is “dire”, according to NHS Providers, which represents health service trusts.
The government says extra funding and a regular recruitment drive will help boost the care workforce.
Care companies are facing acute problems in recruiting and retaining staff, according to a report which suggests there are now more unfilled care jobs than before the pandemic.
The annual Skills for Care workforce report is based on data provided by a representative sample of employers of England’s 1.54 million care workers.
The researchers calculate that employers were failing to fill 8% of posts before the pandemic.
Figures obtained since suggest this had fallen to below 6% by June 2020 – but by August this year the trend had reversed with 8.2% of care sector roles unfilled.
This amounts to more than 100,000 posts with no-one to fill them, says Skills for Care.
To read the full story visit the BBC News website.
