• Skills boot camps for the unemployed a desperate attempt to distract voters from government care failings

    Skills boot camps for the unemployed a desperate attempt to distract voters from government care failings
    Commenting on a speech today (Tuesday) by work and pensions secretary Mel Stride, in which he announced a ministerial taskforce to tackle recruitment in hard-to-fill sectors like social care, UNISON head of social care Gavin Edwards said:
    “There’s nothing wrong with promoting social care as a career and offering proper training to try to attract new recruits to the crisis-stricken sector.
    “But forcing the unemployed off benefits and into caring roles,&n
  • Skills boot camps for the unemployed a desperate attempt to distract from government failings

    Skills boot camps for the unemployed a desperate attempt to distract from government failings
    Commenting on a speech today (Tuesday) by work and pensions secretary Mel Stride, in which he announced a ministerial taskforce to tackle recruitment in hard-to-fill sectors like social care, UNISON head of social care Gavin Edwards said:
    “There’s nothing wrong with promoting social care as a career and offering proper training to try to attract new recruits to the crisis-stricken sector.
    “But forcing the unemployed off benefits and into caring roles,&n

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