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LGA responds to Skills for Care Workforce Strategy

Councils are calling a long-term care workforce plan, alongside immediate investment in adult social care to tackle the urgent issues affecting services.

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Responding to the Skills for Care Workforce Strategy, Cllr David Fothergill, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said: “The adult social care workforce provide committed and compassionate care and support around the clock, they are a critical component in helping to ensuring people who draw on care and support are best able to live an equal life. This key workforce strategy rightly highlights the importance of all who work in care, and the opportunities and challenges the sector faces in the years ahead. Skills for Care are to be commended for taking this on and working so constructively with a range of people and partners.

“Care worker pay urgently needs an uplift to help fill the tens of thousands of vacancies across the country, councils and care providers need support in recruiting the right people to do this crucial work. Councils are calling a long-term care workforce plan, alongside immediate investment in adult social care to tackle the urgent issues affecting services. We hope the Government takes note of the valuable work Skills for Care have done and the recommendations they are making.“