Immigration rules do not help social care, lawyers warn
Lawyers are warning that the Government’s new immigration system published yesterday fails to tackle the deepening staffing crisis in the health and…
Staffing
Bring some Christmas cheer to your care workers
Around half of care workers feel they are not treated as professionals by their employer and only a third feel their job…
Scotland progresses mandatory staffing Bill
The general principles of legislation aiming to ensure health and social care providers are providing adequate numbers of suitably qualified staff and…
Skills for Care launches free staffing guide
Skills for Care has launched an online guide to help social care employers with safe staffing. The online guide includes tips about…
Wales and Scotland raise concerns about EU Settlement Scheme
Wales’ Health Secretary Vaughan Gething and Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport Jeane Freeman have issued a joint letter to the…
Carers highlight importance of job satisfaction
Over three times as many care professionals believe that enjoying their jobs (87.9 per cent) is a better measure of career success,…
How to reward exceptional staff
One4all Spotlight Awards returns for a third year running. The UK Spotlight Awards allows UK’s health and social care businesses to have the…
HC-One in care careers championing initiative
HC-One, the Kind Care Company, has signed an agreement to ‘professionalise’ caring. In conjunction with trade union organisation GMB, the care home…
Mental health problems affect one in three care professionals
A third (31%) of care professionals have considered resigning from a job due to lack of support, according to a survey by…
Housing and Care 21 sets new pay bar
Housing & Care 21 has increased pay and introduced guaranteed hours contracts for carers in a bid to boost staff retention, encourage…