No care service without care workers Andy Burnham takes office today as the Prime Minister who first proposed a National Care Service, over fifteen years ago. In his first speech he named social care among the big things politics has neglected and said he will not flinch from fixing it. The Care Workers’ Charity welcomes that seriousness. …
A Fair Pay Agreement for care workers is welcome, and now it needs the funding and pace to change lives The Care Workers’ Charity welcomes the first adult social care Fair Pay Agreement and the hope it brings, and urges government to match it with enough funding and a faster timeline so care workers feel the difference sooner. …
Variation in social care cannot be fixed without investing in the workforce The Care Workers’ Charity responds to the CQC’s first national review of local authority adult social care London, 14th July 2026. The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has responded to the Care Quality Commission’s first national report drawing together assessments of all 153 local authorities in England with adult …
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. 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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
The Care Workers’ Charity looks forward to working with the next Labour leader and Prime Minister, and urges them to act now on social care reform. London, 22nd June 2026 The Care Workers’ Charity thanks Sir Keir Starmer for his service as Prime Minister and for the commitments his government made to adult social care. Under his leadership, Labour set out …