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• The Guardian view on care workers: undervalued and underpaid | Editorial

  25-06-2023 19:25
  
  A worsening public sector recruitment crisis has some of its worst effects in adult social care Any week now, an NHS workforce plan will be published. Already delayed several times, it is expected to set out proposals for training doctors, nurses and other health service staff in England. But the crisis of recruitment and retention in the care sector will not be addressed. If the plan encourages more care workers to seek jobs in the NHS – where pay and conditions are better – it coul
  
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• Government bids to clear up practitioner ‘confusion’ on information sharing

  25-06-2023 12:50
  
  By Nicole Weinstein
  The government has sought to address “confusion” among practitioners that is preventing them from sharing information to safeguard children at risk.
  Consultative guidance issued last week is designed to address concerns that staff are not sharing information without consent, contributing to what government safeguarding advisers have dubbed the “perennial problem” of inadequate knowledge exchange in child protection cases.
  The Department for Education (
  
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• Millions in UK fear they will not be able to afford to care for elderly parents, research suggests

  25-06-2023 10:00
  
  A majority of those polled were worried about the stress of providing care for an ageing parentMillions of people who face providing unpaid care for an elderly parent in the future fear they won’t have enough money to do so, a charity has said.Age UK polled adults aged 40 to 60 who are considering becoming unpaid carers and found that 61% believe they will struggle to manage financially. Continue reading...
  
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