Social care workers who work in England have had to turn away so many people so that they can provide support to others. They are also helping to survey new service managers as well. The National Care Forum is now being done in partnership with the famous Outstanding Managers Network. They polled around 340 registered managers and they did this to try and support care homes and even domiciliary care services. This is going to be done to try and support adults and the workforce challenges that they are going to face as the pandemic continues to press on. If you work in homecare or if you work in the industry of private nursing, you will know how much pressure the industry has been under. Of course, it is also going to impact social workers too.

67% of the managers who were polled stated that they had to take extreme measures to try and respond to staff shortages and this included stopping new admissions and even care packages. One third of the respondents stated that they had to stop or even cap admissions that came from hospitals, and finally, 35% of people said the same for the community in general. 25% said that they have had to stop accepting domiciliary care packages from authorities as well. This is not good to say the least but at the end of the day, it just goes to show how important it is for people to be supported during staff challenges. Turned down and complex care requests are unfortunately not being supported enough and staff are not able to do their jobs properly as a result. Who knows what the future holds, but right now, things are looking uncertain and the surveys are hoping to shed some light on the underlying problems in general.