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Adults, Workforce, Social work leaders

‘Dear Sajid Javid: please end the inappropriate detention of autistic people and those with learning disabilities’

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Yvette Stanley

Workforce, Children, Social work leaders

Ofsted calls for power to scrutinise children’s home groups

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Home care worker speaking to older person

Adults, Workforce, Social work leaders

Seven in eight commissioners paying below ‘minimum rate for home care’

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Workforce, Children, Social work leaders

Profits for big children’s care providers ‘higher than expected’, says competition watchdog

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Adults, Workforce, Social work leaders

CQC joins call for care staff pay boost to prevent ‘tsunami of unmet need’

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Sajid Javid

Adults, Workforce, Social work leaders

Providers report 17% vacancy rate as staff shortages ‘threaten to overwhelm the sector’

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Adults, Workforce, Social work leaders

Experienced care staff earn 6p an hour more than newcomers

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Adults, Workforce, Social work leaders

Adult social care needs £6.1bn funding boost to end ‘low cost, low value, low outcome’ approach

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Adults, Workforce

‘To retain care home staff, we need to make sure they have access to better support’

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Workforce

How writing great job adverts can be your first step to solving staff retention in the care sector

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Workforce

Recruiting care workers: 4 tips for hiring the right people

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Workforce

How to keep care staff happy: investment, involvement and keeping an eye on morale

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Workforce

Convincing reasons for using personality tests for hiring care staff

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Adults, Workforce

Care homes get 40 per cent boost in nursing fees following costs review

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Adults, Workforce

‘Lack of funding for national living wage means poorer people will miss out on care’

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Adults, Workforce

Rise in care homes going out of business

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