Julie Nugent, director of productivity and skills at West Midlands Combined Authority, shares her insights into the recruitment challenges facing the care sector and how it is addressing them with free work-based programmes and technical training.
Health and social care has always been a critical public service, but never before has it played such a fundamental role.
The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated our huge reliance on key workers, where we have all come to realise – and appreciate – the importance of our health and social care workforce.
Since March 2020, we have been inundated with news about staff shortages within the sector as well as, more positively, a significant increase in young people and adults keen to explore health and social care careers.
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