South Africa’s social workers face a huge burden without much support, and burnout is a risk.
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Social care is not just a funding challenge – it’s a workforce challenge, too.
Nearly 80% of New Zealand’s vital community care providers experience workplace violence. But like the workers themselves, the problem remains largely invisible.
Andy Burnham says his government is going to fix it for good. What would that take?
Projections suggest that an extra 480,000 jobs will be needed in the care sector by 2035.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada must expedite all pending permanent residence applications for migrant care workers to ensure timely family reunification for these essential workers.
An independent report details ‘shocking’ Home Office mishandling of the visas.
Most of the indirect care workforce will only see a pay rise between 3% and 7%.
Most of the emergency government aid went to covering care homes’ loss of revenue. Care workers, meanwhile, kept the sector afloat through overtime.
Our research shows that aged care work is still stigmatised by other health professionals as dirty, difficult and low-status – more than most other jobs.
Recruiting volunteers in social care is no easy fix for the struggles of the sector.
Immigrant care workers are having to work into retirement age to make ends meet. The Canadian government must do more to support them.
Alternative working arrangements like gig platforms might help immigrant workers find temporary work, but many care professionals are still unable to find permanent jobs in their industry.
Care workers in England have faced impossible pressures during lockdown. The government needs to ensure better pay and working conditions.
Nursing has long been seen as a vocation, not a skill. This impacts nursing staff and patients both.
Ahead of the 2022 budget, the government is investing in male-dominated apprenticeships rather than women-dominated care roles. Has anything really changed in how we value the work of women?
Care workers, care recipients, think tanks and parliament itself agree that social care reform is urgently needed. But this plan’s lack of detail and insufficient funding suggest that it a ways off.
Social care has long been the healthcare system’s poor cousin. Will the UK government’s new plans to reform the system succeed where others have not?
Vacancy rates in the care worker sector have now risen above pre-pandemic levels.
School food programs should be key elements of governments’ COVID-19 responses. In planning these, the relationships that are part of providing food matter.
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Work and Organisation, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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NIHR SSCR Research Fellow, School for Social Care Research, University of Bristol
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Professor of Industrial Relations, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Business Ethics, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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PhD candidate, Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Human Resources, Griffith University
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Assistant Professor, Sociology and Politics, Thompson Rivers University
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Professor in Psychology, University of Florida
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Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
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PhD Researcher in Dementia Care, King's College London
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PhD researcher in Anthropology, UCL
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health, University of British Columbia
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Post-doctoral Fellow, Sociology, University of British Columbia