In its most recent report, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) described the health and care system as ‘gridlocked. They go on to suggest that, the heart of these problems lay “staff shortages and struggles to recruit and retain staff right across health and care.”
These concerns were also identified within a House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee Report (2022) which suggested that “the National Health Service and the social care sector are facing the greatest workforce crisis in their history.” The same report served to highlight the acute problems in social care by suggesting that 33% of care workers left their job in 2020–21.
Finances is also a significant issue. A report published by national learning disability charity Hft and Care England focused upon the finances and workforce in the adult social care sector in 2022. They highlighted the cost of living crisis, including dramatically increasing energy prices, as one of the factors that had sent 82% of providers across the sector into deficit or surplus decrease in 2022. Other factors identified in the report include:
The wider issue of a lack of care provision was laid bare in a news article that highlighted that some vulnerable children were being placed in care homes a significant distance, sometimes 300 miles, from the areas in which they grew up.
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