Interconnection Between Funding & Workforce
Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, has submitted written evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee.
Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England, says: The Health and Social Care Select Committee’s latest inquiry focuses on funding and workforce, two of the most important pillars of the adult social care sector. It explores:
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Martin Green continues:
“A decreasing funding pot has hampered providers’ efforts to recruit and retain staff. This has manifest in a number of ways, spanning the overall financial attractiveness of the adult social care sector as an entity in itself, but also providers ability to compete with other sectors. The adult social care workforce needs to be seen for what it is, an exciting, challenging, professional career and we have to ensure that staff are remunerated accordingly”.