Report: 580,000 more social workers needed by 2035

By Martin Ford | 05 August 2019

More than 500,000 social care jobs in England will need to be filled by 2035, a new report has predicted.

Skills for Care’s annual report on the English care workforce has projected that it will need to grow by a third - amounting to 580,000 jobs - to keep pace with growing numbers of people aged over 65.

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