The number of modern slavery cases reported within the UK care industry has more than doubled in the past year. There were 109 potential victims exploited for personal or financial gain between January and March 2023 – twice as many as the same period in 2022. The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority’s (“GLAA”) role is …
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The NHS Workforce Plan (“Plan”), published on Friday 7 July 2023, outlines a number of Government interventions designed to reform the NHS workforce in a sustainable way for the future. This could not come at a more crucial time amidst the strikes over pay and working conditions in general. The Government has backed the Plan …
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A new Conservative Group is angry at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for failing to deliver on promises made in the 2019 Conservative Manifesto to reduce immigration. Boris Johnson originally made this promise and at the time net immigration was 226,000. According to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics, this is now at 606,000. …
The Institute for Policy Research (“IPR”) recently published a report focusing on NHS workforce retention called ‘Should I stay or should I go? NHS staff retention in the post Covid-19 world’ (“The IPR Report”). The IPR Report highlights the extent of the NHS staffing crisis. It analysed responses from NHS staff between December 2020 to …
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As many will be aware, there is a staffing crisis in the health and social care sector. Up until recently, it has been mostly NHS doctors who have been striking, largely over pay issues, in an attempt urge the Government to act and inject more funding into the healthcare sector. It appears that the social …
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council (“NMC”) has written to Canterbury Christ Church University (“the University”) confirming its provisional intention to withdraw approval for its midwifery programme at hospital trusts across the local area. As readers will be aware, the NMC is the statutory regulator for the Nursing and Midwifery profession and sets the standards of …
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In order to help ease pressures on the health and social care sector due to staff shortages, the NHS is planning to send representatives to India with a view to returning with new recruits. The sector has become more reliant on international workers, especially as the local workforce has left the sector for better paid …
My colleague recently wrote an article on the Government’s plans to block-beds in care homes in order to ease pressures on the NHS. Unsurprisingly, the care sector has not responded favourably to this. Chief Executive of Care England, Martin Green, has stated that care homes will need at least £1500 per bed per week to …
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The NHS and social care face the greatest workforce crisis in their history. This is further compounded by the absence of a credible government strategy to tackle the situation according to MP Jeremy Hunt, who is also Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee. The persistent understaffing is posing a serious risk to …
On 27 July 2022 Ofsted published a report entitled ‘Children’s social care 2022: recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic’ (“The Report”). The report investigates the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to children’s social care, using focus groups, inspections, and interviews with inspectors to aid the investigation. The report concluded that the pandemic has …
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