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Skills for Care - Social Care Workforce: Key Findings from the State of the Workforce Report https://bit.ly/3Y2cqdI The latest report on the social care workforce highlights both strengths and challenges within the sector. 1. Large workforce: Social care remains a significant employer, with over 1.59 million people working in the sector. 2. High vacancy rates: Despite recent improvements, the vacancy rate remains at 131,000 vacancies per day, indicating ongoing recruitment difficulties. This equates to 8.3% which is about three times the national vacancy rate. 3. Projected workforce growth: The sector faces a significant challenge of meeting future demand, with an estimated need for up to 540,000 additional posts by 2040. 4. International recruitment: While international recruitment has helped fill vacancies and we owe a debt of gratitude to people who have come to the UK to work in social care, it's on the decline. The number of international recruits starting direct care providing roles in the independent sector decreased from 26,000 in March-April 2023 to 8,000 in the same period in 2024. 5. Pay: While care workers generally earn above the National Living Wage, pay gaps have remained relatively stable. The median hourly rate for care workers was £11, which is 58p an hour more than the National Living Wage. Care workers with five or more years' experience earned around 10p more per hour than those with less than one year's experience. 6. Qualifications: 41% of care workers held a relevant qualification at level 2 or above, which has remained relatively stable since 2020/21 but is down from 49% in 2017/18. The number of adult social care apprenticeships started in 2022/23 was 24,600, a 14% drop from the previous year. Since 16/17 there has been a 75% reduction in apprenticeships in adult social care. 7. Diversity: The workforce remains diverse, with 32% of workers coming from ethnic minority backgrounds. However, there are opportunities to improve inclusion and representation. We have seen record numbers of men join the workforce – men now make up 21% of the workforce. This is largely driven by international recruitment. 8. Workforce strategy: To address these challenges, the adult social care workforce strategy outlines potential solutions, including workforce capacity planning, skills development, and improved diversity and inclusion initiatives. https://lnkd.in/ekTyf882

Enjoyed reading recent posts by both Jane Townson OBE and Melanie Weatherley MBE covering the state of workforce in the care sector, alongside the recent Skills for Care social care sector workforce report https://lnkd.in/dcWvAh5m Some additional thoughts from me: * It's clear that international recruitment has played a critical role helping the social care workforce expand. Nearly 250,000 overseas professionals have joined the workforce over the last 2.5 years. * Without these dedicated individuals, the vacancy rate, instead of decreasing from 10% to 8.3%, would have exploded to something like 20% - unimaginable. * It's equally clear that international recruitment is only part of the solution. There needs to be a fundamental revision of the role care staff play in our society, starting firstly with better pay but also spanning wider recognition and training to build the role into a core vocation domestically. * With public finances stretched, and a worker shortage of 1.2M across ALL UK sectors, there are no easy answers to a full and stable care sector workforce. At Borderless we welcome some of the positive and overdue developments made by government over the last 10 months, particularly around greater regulatory oversight of sponsoring businesses, and a stronger Home Office enforcement regime. While this adds significant complexity and friction for care businesses, it is starting to reduce historically high levels of system abuse by unscrupulous third parties, which was an untenable position for the UK to have facilitated. With the care workforce required to expand by nearly 40% over the next 15 years, getting migration right is clearly mission critical.

Very interesting read from Professor Oonagh Smyth ! "The number of international recruits starting direct care providing roles in the independent sector decreased from 26,000 in March-April 2023 to 8,000 in the same period in 2024." Care & Nursing Providers - together we need to do better! International Recruitment can have more benefits that UK recruitment... ✅ Reduce your recruitment costs by 80% ✅ Retention rate is 96% - Hold onto the staff your recruit Save MONEY and RETAIN your staff? Sounds like a no-brainer... Imagine a tech platform that could do it all for you with the power of AI 😁 You know where i am 😍 E: sam.bruty@tern-group.com / T: 07919402273

Adult social care means I can live my life the way I want to. Today, Skills for Care report shows a small but welcome reduction in care staff vacancies. But we still have a vacancy rate 3 times bigger and will need an additional half a million care roles by 2040 to meet rising demand. Read the 2024 report from Skills For Care:

Get the scoop on who's working in North Dakota! The 'rate of adults working' is a metric used to evaluate the outlook of the labor market, indicating the economy's capacity to accommodate employment for a growing population. Find out more details: https://bit.ly/3KF4FCC #NDdata #labormarket

Why host a series to help stay-at-home parents get back to work⁉ Because this is a population of our workforce with phenomenal skills and responsibilities that would make an immediate impact within any business...but it's scary to have gaps on a resume. The reality is there are less humans entering our workforce because families are having less children or none at all. Couple that with so many people retiring, we have to relook at how we write job descriptions and the rate in which we create jobs. I believe businesses will be forced to look at creating special roles that accommodate stay-at-home parents and that also tap into a retired population. This will be one way that our small businesses can retain staffing and combat our ongoing workforce issues. That's why we should host a back to work series for stay-at-home parents. #worthingtonchamber #workforce #leadership

How many people in Greater Hartford participate in the region’s workforce? It’s roughly two in three working age adults. That’s slightly lower than 12 or 13 years ago but on par with a handful of similarly sized metro regions. I’ve used publicly available data below to graph metropolitan Hartford’s workforce participation rates since 2010. I also added, for comparison, participation rates in gray from seven other metros that community leaders here sometimes use in public analyses to help understand and contextualize the #StateofTheEconomyHartford. Participation in greater #HartfordCT’s labor market is dynamic: prime-age workers participate more than comparable metros, while younger adults participate less frequently than elsewhere. Looking closer, one can see participation by adults age 20 through 24 explain much of the slump in the region’s workforce participation. I’ve used one of the comments beneath this post to drop a separate graph of workforce participation by those younger adults. … How will the region’s participation rate change again when the U.S. Census Bureau publishes another year’s worth of data in September? Will participation among young adults rise as the regional economy changes and adapts to new post-pandemic conditions? Public conversation around data points such as this can help foster collective awareness of the regional economy and identify issues in need of community attention. Note: the list of comparable metros I use here is the same list used in recent economic analyses by the Capitol Region Council of Governments and the MetroHartford Alliance. #regionaleconomy #economics 

Interesting data from Pew. The older workforce, numbering around 11 million, has grown nearly fourfold since the mid-1980s, mainly due to the increasing 65-and-older population. Today, 19% of adults over 65 are employed, a significant rise from 11% in 1987. Factors driving this growth include improved health, higher education levels, evolving retirement plans, policy changes, and job nature transformations. Future projections suggest continued growth in older workers' role, with older adults expected to account for a significant portion of labor force growth. While older adults are increasingly participating in the labor force, their involvement in the gig economy remains comparatively low. #aging #workforcetrends #data

New Hampshire’s working age population grew by just 1% from 2012-2022, while the elderly population grew by 45%. This demographic shift creates additional demand for services and highlights the need for policies that support workforce growth and economic stability. https://lnkd.in/e8PAKhFW #EconomicImpact #FiscalImpact #WorkforceDevelopment #BenefitsCliff #NewHampshire #ProgramAnalysis

✨ This past week, I have been delving deeper, looking at the global data trends of older women in the workforce. It's interesting how we have normalized particular ages in the workforce. ✨ It's time to redefine what this means!! ✨ Today, more and more people are working longer beyond what we call the retirement age, building upon their expertise, starting new careers, passing on wisdom, and they are one of the most valuable assets to our workforce. ✨ My mom retired at 70 and has continued to work part-time after. My mentors are mostly over 65 and they continue to support me with strategy, and looking at the way we continue to move forward and create a vision for all of us in the future. ✨ "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projections show that the role of older workers will continue to grow over the next decade. Adults ages 65 and older are projected to be 8.6% of the labor force (those working and looking for work) in 2032, up from 6.6% in 2022." https://lnkd.in/gu23n_Ak ✨ These statistics are a call to action that we need to support health and well-being of multicultural communities through our strongest years ahead as we stay in the workforce, contributing to economic growth, and sustainability. ✨This is Health Equity!! #PublicHealth #SelfCare #Agingandwork #Communityhealth #Globalhealth #healthequity