Yesterday it emerged that a Government funding pledge of £500m to boost the social care workforce is being slashed in half. Following years of chronic under-funding for adult social care, this underlines its low priority
A cross-Government social work task force led by the Office of the Chief Social Worker is needed to implement an ambitious programme of reform to tackle the recruitment and retention crisis in social work.
There is a recruitment and retention crisis in social work in England. Vacancy and turnover rates are up, and most people do not stay in local authority social work for longer than 5 years. Government
