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Looking ahead after a challenging year
Editor
Tim Probert
timprobert@stepcomms.com
Business Manager Michael Butcher
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Journal Administration
Katy Cockle
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Steven Dillon Publisher
Geoff King
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Publishing Director
Trevor Moon
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Welcome to the December issue of The Care Home Environment magazine. The end of the year is a natural time to reflect on developments during what has been
a challenging 12 months for the social care sector. Thankfully, Covid-19 deaths have continued to stay relatively low ahead since the
spring with, as yet, no sign of a repeat of the tragic ‘second wave’ seen this time last year. Yet while the dark days of the pandemic look to have ended, the pandemic continues
to wreak havoc indirectly through its impact on the workforce. A recent survey of care workers by UNISON found 97 per cent of respondents said
their employer is suffering staff shortages. Staff, it said, are being driven out by burnout and stress plus mental health and wellbeing issues.
Topps believes that challenging perceptions of social care is paramount, and pleads with providers to highlight the difference that social care staff make to people’s lives
UNISON believes the immediate answer is to give all care workers a pay rise to persuade staff to stay. Yet, as social care leader and campaigner Mark Topps writes in his article this month (see p.21), pay is not the only thing, as social care is unlike other job. Topps believes that challenging perceptions of social care is paramount, and pleads
with providers to highlight the difference that social care staff make to people’s lives. The government has a crucial role in this too and it is hoped that its white paper on
social care reform will deliver on professional development and long-term wellbeing of the social care workforce.
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This edition of The Care Home Environment is our final digital-only issue. From January, we will be publishing ten printed editions of the magazine – up from six – with an issue every month bar August and December. We will continue to publish digital versions of the magazine, which is now available on
a new The Care Home Environment app. The Android version can be downloaded here with an Apple version to follow shortly. Enjoy the magazine.
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