NHS Employers' response to Skills for Care report
Responding to Skills for Care's 'Size and Structure of the Adult Social Care Sector and Workforce in England' report, Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, part of the NHS Confederation, said: “This comprehensive report always provides an essential picture of the social care workforce. It is encouraging to see some signs of progress in terms of increasing the numbers of people working in social care and the report reinforces the importance of the access that the government has provided to global labour markets from February 2022, with increasing number of overseas recruits joining the sector. However as the report makes clear, profound challenges remain and long term action to support social care services and workers is still unfinished business for the government. "A recommendation of the 2021 report was that further work on integrated working between social care and health be taken forward. NHS Employers and the Integrated Care Systems Network of the NHS Confederation has been pleased to work alongside Skills for Care, the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, to provide guidance on Integrated Workforce Thinking to social care and health leaders and teams. We look forward to continuing that work over this next year." |
