Tories look abroad for care home staff as shortage leaves residents’ basic needs unmet
Help! One can imagine the person inside the care home saying that to their relatives.
Tory Health Secretary Steve Barclay is looking abroad for employees to plug the gaps in care home staffing. Didn’t we quit the EU to stop people from foreign countries coming to the UK and taking our jobs?
Details indicating the scale of the problem are here.
Workers have been walking out to take less stressful, better-paid jobs in supermarkets, hospitality, hairdressing and factory work, according to care home managers.
Common reasons for quitting are low pay worsened by high inflation, and burnout.
Social care reforms focusing on capping costs for service users have been criticised for failing to address the staffing shortage or increasing pay.
So Barclay is going to foreign countries, asking people there to come to the UK to work incredibly hard ministering to people’s needs – for very little pay.
What’s in it for them?
Source: Staffing crisis leaves many English care home residents’ basic needs unmet
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