Social care cannot be treated as subsidiary to the health service, as often appears to be the case, and the department must respond quickly by giving the sector the attention it deserves and needs. The UK Department of Health and Social Care is not doing enough to build a sustainable social care workforce, claims a report from The UK Department of Health and Social Care , showing staff turnover reached 50% , vacancy rates 6.6% (more than double the national average) and 50% of care workers received £ 10.40 /h ($ 7.50 ) or less in 2016/17 . There is a risk that financially-strained independent care providers, drawing around half of income from local authorities, could choose not to invest 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 UK Department of Health and Social Care , showing staff turnover reached 50% , vacancy rates 6.6% (more than double the national average) and 50% of care workers received £ 10.40 /h ($ 7.50 ) or less in 2016/17 . There is a risk that financially-strained independent care providers, drawing around half of income from local authorities, could choose not to invest in areas where more people qualify for local authority funded care, as they are paid below the minimum price for those placements.