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Warning of shortage of workers as cost of care rises sharply in region
Nurse and senior lady in a care home
Annabelle Dickson Political editor
People are shunning jobs in social care to work in supermarkets, leaving a shortfall in the army of workers needed to look after us in old age, it has been warned.
Dennis Bacon, chairman of care providers body Norfolk Independent Care, said the lack of respect for social care work has put people off joining the profession, leaving the industry with a middle-aged workforce which will not go on forever.
It is one of the factors pushing up annual care costs, which rose £2,912, or 9.4pc, in the East, leaving the region with the most expensive care homes for the first time. The average cost for a residential space is now £33,800 per year.
Two thirds of unpaid carers don’t expect to have a holiday this year
Unpaid carers miss out on a holiday
7 million people are unpaid carers in the UK but as the schools break up for the summer and families go on holiday, two thirds of those carers say they don’t expect to go on holiday this year.
According to the latest statistics, 3 in 5 of us will be carers at some point in our lives.
- 68% said they wouldn’t go on holiday this year.
- 50% haven’t had a holiday for between 1 and 5 years.
- 25% haven’t had a holiday for over 5 years.
Disabled dad told he is fit to work TWO WEEKS before death
Diabetic David O’Mar, of Cardiff, was lying in a hospital bed with pneumonia when the DWP made its decision
Matthew Horwood David O’Mar of Fairwater has collected thousands of football kits to give to children in Eastern Europe
‘Fit to work’: David O’Mar was diabetic and suffering with pneumonia when his benefits were taken away
A disabled dad died two weeks after being judged fit for work as he lay in hospital with pneumonia
Diabetic David O’Mar was stripped of his disability benefits in April after a work capability assessment for Iain Duncan Smith’s hated Department for Work and Pensions.
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