‘Unprecedented’ social care shortages are being fuelled by government underfunding leading to unattractive pay rates, according to a senior Knowsley Council officer.
Assistant director of social care Jenny Rollinson said the problem was “well documented” and was behind the huge increase in vacancies across the sector at a meeting of the council’s health and adult social care committee held yesterday (January 17).
The committee had met to discuss issues around hospital discharges in the borough, where councillors were told the scale of the current rate of vacancies in social care – with one in ten positions left vacant across the country- was hampering an already challenging situation.
