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Housing with care and support: a snapshot of the sector and its challenges and opportunities
- Author:
- SKILLS FOR CARE
- Publisher:
- Skills for Care
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 36
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Using five in-depth case studies of housing with care and support providers, this paper explores the strategic and operational issues they face, the influence these have on their workforce and what they saw as the future challenges ahead. The five case studies focused on extra care housing for older people and supported living for people with learning disabilities. The services were set up using different delivery models, some splitting the landlord function from the housing support function and some separating the housing from the care function, with some keeping all three together. Issues discussed include: the structure of the service and its effect on learning and development, workforce planning; recruitment and retention; progression and career development; and partnership, integration and changing expectations of commissioners and their influence on the workforce. Common themes identified across the sites included: challenges in recruitment and retention; lone working as a factor in poor staff retention; and an increasing number of people with high levels of need living in extra care housing, placing the model at risk. Common gaps in learning included mental health, substance dependence, anti-social behaviour, challenging behaviour and preventing loneliness. (Edited publisher abstract)
The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England
- Author:
- SKILLS FOR CARE
- Publisher:
- Skills for Care
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 104
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The report uses the data from the National Minimum Data Set for Social Care (NMDS-SC) to give a picture of adult social care workforce, focusing on the size and structure of the sector and workforce, staff overview, workforce demographics, recruitment and retention, pay, qualifications and training and registered nurses. The main findings include: an estimated 17,300 organisations were involved in providing or organising adult social care in England as at 2013 - an increase of 1 per cent from 2012; around 214,000 adults, older people and carers received direct payments from councils’ social services departments as at 2013 and approximately 70,000 of these recipients were directly employing their own staff; the number of adult social care jobs was estimated to have increased by around 2 per cent between 2012 and 2013 and by 15 per cent since 2009; and since 2009 the workforce has continued to shift away from local authority jobs and towards independent sector jobs. The report concludes that if the sector is to meet the growing demands of an increasing older population then this type of information about the workforce is vital to help plan the future workforce effectively. (Edited publisher abstract)