Huge untapped potential for young people in social care
Latest figures from Social Care Wales highlight the deepening pressures facing social care. With 20,000 more carers needed in Wales by 2030 to cope with demand, it’s imperative that we proactively raise the profile of social care and encourage more young people to believe that they can have a fulfilling career supporting people to live as independently as possible.
Support work, like so many careers, can be stressful but also very rewarding. 75% of our support workers in Wales feel pride in their career and 61% of our support workers say the career has an undeserved bad reputation.
Recently, a person we support with a learning disability attended a skills day as part of his support plan. The very next week, he helped someone having an asthma attack until the ambulance arrived. Sharing amazing stories like this will encourage more people to consider a career in social care.
There’s a huge education that must be done to ensure support work, which impacts and enriches so many lives, is understood and respected. This needs to begin early on – in schools and throughout the education system – to ensure young people consider this career, which can open doors and make a real difference to their own lives and to those they support.
Kim Corsinie, Head of Recruitment, Dimensions
Theale, Reading
0203 696 5800
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