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Urgent, Practical Action is Needed Now to Tackle Adult Social Care Workforce Crisis: The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to Re:State ‘Care To Stay’ Report.

Urgent, Practical Action is Needed Now to Tackle Adult Social Care Workforce Crisis: The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to Re:State ‘Care To Stay’ Report. A new report from the think tank Re:State has set out a practical, place-based strategy for tackling the crisis facing England’s adult social care workforce, warning that chronic recruitment and retention …

Care Workers Must Be At The Centre of Workforce Reform: The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to LGA’s Care Where We Live Report.

Care Workers Must Be At The Centre of Workforce Reform: The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to LGA’s Care Where We Live Report. The Care Workers’ Charity has today responded to the Local Government Association’s Care Where We Live report, welcoming its findings whilst making clear that words alone will not be enough. The report, drawing …

What The Fair Pay Agreement Means To Me

What The Fair Pay Agreement Means To Me Written by Princess, A Member of The Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project. I have worked as a care worker for over three years. Over that time, I have supported people across many different settings: home care, residential homes, and units supporting those with dementia, learning …

Immigration Has a Human Cost

Immigration Has a Human Cost Written by Omatule, A Member of The Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project. I arrived in the UK in October 2022 with my spouse and 5 year old child under the health and care work visa to work as care worker. Part of the requirement of the visa then was that I would …

The Casey Commission is Talking About My Future

The Casey Commission is Talking About My Future Blog by Hannah Reseigh-Lincoln, Support worker and member of the Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project It was 5am on a cold, wet and dark November morning in 2025 when I woke very early to make the 30-minute walk to the train station. I was ready to start my journey to …

What a C.Q.C Inspection feels like – from my side of the door!

What a C.Q.C Inspection feels like – from my side of the door! Written By Caroline A Member of The Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project. O.M.G. We are due a visit from C.Q.C. Have I completed my daily health and safety checks? As a key worker, are my residents P.C.P’s and H.A.P’s up to date? …

Improvement Is Not the Same as Fair: The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to DHSC’s Adult Social Care Workforce Survey Report 2026

London, 2nd July 2026 Improvement Is Not the Same as Fair: The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to DHSC’s Adult Social Care Workforce Survey Report 2026 The Care Workers’ Charity (The CWC) has today urged caution against complacency in adult social care, as comparative analysis of its 2025 Care Worker Wellbeing Survey alongside the Department of …

New guide calls on decision-makers to co-produce with care workers, not just consult them

New guide calls on decision-makers to co-produce with care workers, not just consult them The Care Workers’ Charity publishes an updated, practical guide to centring care workers in the decisions that shape their work, and invites the sector to put it into practice with CWC’s support London, 26th June 2026 — The Care Workers’ Charity today publishes an …

The Care Workers’ Charity responds to coverage of the MAC’s fiscal figure for care workers

London, 25th June 2026 Some of this week’s news coverage has centered on a single figure from the Migration Advisory Committee: the estimate that an overseas care worker who arrived in 2022/23 will have a net lifetime fiscal impact of around minus £36,000. It has been described as a “staggering bill” and used to argue for extending the qualifying period …

Progress on Paper, Fragile Foundations: The Care Workers’ Charity Responds to Skills for Care’s Latest Workforce Report

Lowest vacancy rate in a decade, but built on a closing international route and a falling domestic workforce London, 24nth June 2026 The Care Workers’ Charity welcomes Skills for Care’s The size and structure of the adult social care sector and workforce in England, 2025/26, which reports the lowest vacancy rate in a decade and another …