By Maria Ahmed, Deputy News Editor

Today's Budget contains a proposal to create 50,000 traineeships in the care sector for under-25s who have been unemployed for 12 months. While there are no specific details as yet on whether this means social work or other areas like home care or youth work, this could provide a boost to the recruitment crisis across the sector, recently highlighted so starkly by Community Care.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2009/04/budget-will-rookies-plug-recru.html