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New campaign to recruit thousands more adult social care staff – GOV.UK | Carer Voice

A new national recruitment campaign to help fill the 110,000 vacancies in the adult social care sector has launched.

The ‘Every Day Is Different’ campaign will show how rewarding social care careers can be – 96% of care professionals feel their work makes a difference to people’s lives. It will also highlight the opportunities for progression and professional development.

The campaign aims to:

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Employment may be at an all time high in the UK, but austerity, low pay and zero hours contracts inflict misery on millions : The Conversation

The UK government has asserted that “employment is at a record high” with 32.5m people in work, the highest figure since 1971. It took to Twitter to trumpet its success but failed to mention further findings from the Resolution Foundation, a non-partisan think tank that aims to improve living standards for those on low and middle incomes. In response, the foundation tweeted that this “impressive…

‘Mad’ apprenticeship targets have consigned a generation to low-skill, low-paid duties

Original post from The Independent ‘……………….By OLIVER WRIGHT Exclusive: Ministers aim to create three million apprenticeships by 2020 Hundreds of thousands of young people are being encouraged into low-skill, low-pay, on-the-job training schemes to meet ministers’ “mad” target of creating three million apprenticeships by 2020, new figures reveal. The research shows that 60 per cent of all new…