What are the characteristics of the specialist care workforce (e.g. social workers, children's homes, and early help providers)? What are the barriers to specialist staff recruitment and retention, and how can we overcome these?
Background
A sizeable minority of children and young people in England face a significant range of vulnerabilities and disadvantages. These include those already known to children’s social care, children in need, those eligible for free school meals (FSM) because of low family income, those with SEND, in particular those who have an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans and those who attend Alternative Provision. Given the human, economic and social cost of poor performance in this area, we are seeking evidence on the best ways to improve outcomes for these children and young people, before issues become acute and require more significant intervention
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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Research fields
Related UKRI funded projects
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Looked-after children in Wales: An analysis of the backgrounds of children entering public care
The doctoral research around which my fellowship is centred explored the differences between local authorities in Wales in the rates at which they place children in out of home care, referred to as being a 'looked after'...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on the characteristics of children in care and social work practices in Wales, providing relevant insights.
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Rapid Job Creation for Social Care
**Public description** OUTT is a new app for candidates and employers to provide a fast solution to the UK social care staffing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic has placed an increase demand on social care staffing, which...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it addresses staffing crisis in social care but does not specifically focus on characteristics of specialist care workforce or barriers to recruitment and retention.
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National Care Force
The social care sector has been especially hard-hit by the recent Covid-19 pandemic with around 250k staff currently sick or self-isolating; meanwhile the users of these services still need to receive the care and dignit...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it addresses recruitment of volunteers in the social care sector but does not specifically focus on characteristics of specialist care workforce or barriers to recruitment and retention.