Pay for domiciliary care workers has outstripped inflation over the past decade and those at the top of the scale in Carmarthenshire can now earn more than £27,000 a year, a report has said. But it added that Carmarthenshire Council still faces huge domiciliary care pressures in common with other authorities – a situation evidenced by the fact that it currently commissions around 9,600 hours of care a week for residents in need, down from just over 12,400 hours in June 2021.
Jake Morgan, the council's director of community services, told a scrutiny committee that a care academy launched by the authority was targeting sixth formers with the prospect of being debt-free and potentially qualified to degree level. Referring to the Care Academi Mr Morgan said: "We have had a set of quite high-quality individuals with the required resilience, confidence, and knowledge to go on a journey to hopefully professional training." But he said getting things going was proving to take time.
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