Figures analysed by the BBC come as homecare providers write letter to prime minister warning of crisis facing sectorMore than 900 adult social care workers a day quit their job in England last year, figures reveal, as homecare providers warn the adult social care system has begun to collapse. Analysis by the BBC of data released by a charity, Skills for Care, shows that in 2015-16 about 338,520 adult social care workers left their roles, equal to 928 people leaving their job every day. There were more than 1.3 million people employed in the adult social care sector in England in the period. The average full-time frontline care worker earned £7.69 an hour, or £14,800 a year, according to the data, and one in every four social care workers was employed on a zero-hours contract. The government has said it will spend an extra £2bn on the social care system and permitted local authorities to raise council tax bills in order to fund the gap in social care budgets.

Source: The Guardian April 11, 2017 08:40 UTC