Even before the pandemic, there were over 124,000 care-worker vacancies in the UK.
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Care workers, care recipients, think tanks and parliament itself agree that social care reform is urgently needed. But this plan’s lack of detail and insufficient funding suggest that it a ways off.
With means-tested support, those who are less well-off will end up losing more of their assets to pay for their care.
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The case for introducing a limit on how much people pay for their own care is clear. Figuring out how to calculate that cap, though, is complicated.
New reports suggest over 8 per cent of care worker roles are currently unfilled.
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Social care has long been the healthcare system’s poor cousin. Will the UK government’s new plans to reform the system succeed where others have not?
Almost 90% of the care-home workforce is already vaccinated.
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Improving care workers’ wages and working conditions will not only boost vaccination rates – it will tackle staffing shortages in care.
The government’s plan to fund social care reform and the NHS COVID recovery risks doing neither.
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Tax rises to pay for the NHS recovery could have focused on those who have profited from the pandemic. Bundling these costs with social care reform, however, risks
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Key loopholes in the proposed cap on social care spending mean all assets won’t necessarily be protected.
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The government proposes to fix social care and rescue the NHS in one go. The levy it proposes risks only scratching the surface