Workforce situation continues to worsen

Care Aware
Jun 16, 2022
1 min read

Skills for Care’s latest data on the state of the care workforce in the UK showed vacancies continuing to increase, hitting 10.3% in April in care homes and 13.5% for domiciliary care.

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