The department estimates that the workforce will need to grow by 2.6% every year until 2035. The UK Department of Health and Social Care is not doing enough to build a sustainable social care workforce , claims a report from the National Audit Office , showing that turnover reached 27.8 % , vacancy rates 6.6 % ( more than double the national average ) and 40 % of care workers received £ 7.50 / h ( $ 10.40 ) or less in 2016/17 . There is a risk that financially - strained independent care providers , drawing up to two thirds of income from local authorities , could choose not to work in areas where more people qualify for local authority funded care , as they are paid below the minimum price for those placements .
The UK Department of Health and Social Care is not doing enough to build a sustainable social care workforce , claims a report from the National Audit Office , showing that turnover reached 27.8 % , vacancy rates 6.6 % ( more than double the national average ) and 40 % of care workers received £ 7.50 / h ( $ 10.40 ) or less in 2016/17 . There is a risk that financially - strained independent care providers , drawing up to two thirds of income from local authorities , could choose not to work in areas where more people qualify for local authority funded care , as they are paid below the minimum price for those placements .