State of care report links investment in workforce to higher quality care

Skills for Care’s latest report into the state of care has revealed strong links between investment and training in the adult social care sector and the delivery of higher quality care. The annual ‘State of the adult social care sector and workforce in England’ report was published last week by Skills for Care at...

CQC’s State of Care report reveals ‘severe strain’

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its annual State of Care report, which reveals a health and social care system under “severe strain.” The care watchdog has warned that a lack of funding for community services threatens the proposed shift towards care outside of the hospital environment and also risks an “erosion” in...