Taking care of the future

By Margaret Wilcox | 12 October 2016

Next month’s National Children’s and Adult Services (NCAS) conference will allow us to put social care in the spotlight once again to highlight the huge challenges – and innovative work – within adult social care.

Funding is vital to the future sustainability of social care, which is facing an increasingly real threat of collapse. Another significant problem is recruitment. There is a shortage of people with sufficient skills and motivation to help deliver future social care.

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