As Camilla Cavendish noted in her review of practice among healthcare assistants and care support workers published last week: “To get the right quality of care, it is vital that the right people are recruited to caring roles.”
If we’re really going to transform social care, we all – employers, people using services, relatives, unpaid carers and commissioners – need to have faith that we have the right people in the job, doing the right thing in the right way. And recruiting people with the right values and behaviours in sufficient numbers to support a growing sector is a real issue in social care.
