The Yorkshire Post says: Care conundrum '“ the price of political deadlock
One such issue is the skills shortage from the need to do more to promote degree-level apprenticeships to policies which enable the recruitment – and retention – of sufficient staff in the social care sector.
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Hide AdEven though the ramifications of an ageing population were well-documented long before Brexit entered the political lexicon, the care system is still propped up goodwill because levels of pay remain the absolute minimum because funding at a local, regional and national level has simply failed to keep pace with the growing, and self-evident, demand for such services.
With 160,000 social care workers in the North earning below the real Living Wage according to hard-hitting research published by the IPPR think-tank today, the case for reform in the forthcoming Green Paper is a compelling one.
Yet, while such a move would be welcomed by carers, and those considering a career in this sector, it is very ominous that politicians have spent even longer trying to devise a viable funding model than they have done on Brexit, and they are still no nearer to reaching a consensus.