ARTICLES

VIDEOS

PODCASTS
BACK TO
FRONT PAGE

Vicky is one of the creators of CLGdotTV, where she also produces and presents programmes. She has 25 years experience of delivering projects in and for public sector organisations including government departments, local authorities, the NHS, and professional associations. Much of her work has been around digitally-enabled innovation and improvement.

@vickysargent

Social care: reasons to be cheerful

SHARE

Image:
© CLGdotTV 2018

Good career prospects, new solutions for care needs, opportunities for tech giants and SMEs, money for local economies. David Watts, Director of Adult Services for Wolverhampton says it’s not all doom and gloom.

Notwithstanding the well-documented financial crisis currently hampering the provision of social care by local authorities, there are plenty of reasons to feel optimistic.

While there are undoubtedly care workers caught in highly stressful, low paid work, skills acquired in provision of care are highly transferable, and the sector also provides great opportunities for people who want to, to progress from frontline jobs requiring no qualifications, into training and development leading to well paid, senior roles.

Local authorities like Wolverhampton are also starting to recognise that the ‘social care pound’ is also a local pound, with care workers highly likely to spend their earnings locally, making the sector highly important to those thinking about economic development and regeneration.

Opportunities in social care are increasingly understood by tech giants like Amazon and Google, who see that tools and devices like smartphones, tablets, virtual assistants and collaboration software can be adapted to meet care needs, increasing people’s ability to live independently for longer.

 

Back to homepage