Cutting the £500m promised for social care is an insult to the industry, a spokeswoman says.
Geoff Butcher, who runs six care homes, says some providers will have to scale back their services
Mr Butcher, whose company Blackadder Corporation has sites in Stourbridge, Bewdley, Hereford, Malvern, the Cotswolds, and Leicester, said he needed 7-8% more staff but it was hard to attract people to the roles without adequate funding. "You can go and have a far more comfortable existence doing parcels for Amazon or stacking shelves at Lidl for more money. That really is, at the end of the day, the core issue."
"So the announcement today that the training funding is going to be cut just shows how little value the government put on social care. Any way of being able to pay [staff] the correct wage for the job and also give career progression... just isn't being considered whatsoever.
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