BRIEFING - Who cares? - The experience of social care workers, and the

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BRIEFING - Who cares? - The experience of social care workers, and the

25 Jan 2023

BRIEFING Who cares? The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector Nye Cominetti January 2023 resolutionfoundation.org @resfoundation Who cares? | The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector 2 Acknowledgements This briefing note is part of the Resolution Foundation’s labour market enforcement programme. [...] But even with these caveats, we would expect a rise in the number of elderly people to be accompanied by more, not fewer, jobs in the industry.1 If the size of the social care workforce had risen in line with the population aged 80 and above since 2012 (a thought experiment that admittedly does not factor in any changes in the number of people with a disability requiring care, the health of the el. [...] We segmented our groups in this way Resolution Foundation Who cares? | The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector 9 to test whether the experience of working in these settings was different (see Box 1 for further details on the share of the social care workforce in each setting). [...] Resolution Foundation Who cares? | The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector 11 I like the responsibility of them allowing you in their home, and the trust and respect of it. [...] Resolution Foundation Who cares? | The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector 20 Although the charts above suggest that problems of workload and intensity have been a long-standing issue in the sector, the workers we spoke to suggested these problems were tied to the staffing shortages the sector faces, which, as set out in Figure 2, have worsened.
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