The challenges facing domiciliary care in Swansea have finally begun to subside to pre-Covid pandemic levels, the council's director of social services said. David Howes said staff sickness levels were lower now than during the past three years, but he warned that adult social care still had a couple of tough years ahead because the NHS in Wales hadn't recovered.
"We are not of the woods yet," he told a council scrutiny panel. However, Mr Howes said the days of waiting lists for people in need of care, which is provided or arranged by councils, being 300% higher than normal were not being experienced.
"I am really pleased that finally we are seeing services recover to something like what we would expect ordinarily, albeit with a changed nature of demand," he said. "At least the numbers are back to where we would expect them."
