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INVESTING IN FAIR PAY WILL BE A COST BUT IT WILL ALSO BRING MULTIPLE BENEFITS AND FINANCIAL RETURNS. THESE BENEFITS CAN BE SUMMED UP AS THE SOCIAL CARE TRIPLE WIN:
FAIR PAY INVESTMENT IN CARE STAFF
FAIR CARE WINNING POST
1. Reliable, consistent, and quality care delivered by an engaged and stable workforce
Improved quality of life for people who draw on care, making it a career of choice
2.Cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity in social care, hospital and NHS services
A financially sustainable health and care system
3.Economic growth, jobs for local people, levelling up, and unpaid carers back at work
Increased economic growth, sustainable public spending and levelling up
WIN 1
WIN 2 COST-EFFECTIVE CARE:
Delivering greater savings, efficiency, and productivity in social care and the NHS through fully staffed, integrated, and stabilised services. Care providers can drive greater impact and innovation for society through increased capacity and further ability to focus outwards.
WIN 3 ECONOMIC GROWTH:
More and better jobs for local people, strengthening local economies, levelling up of low-income areas, reducing expenditure on benefits and avoiding working-age adults leaving employment to become carers.
BETTER LIVES:
An engaged, stable, and valued workforce delivering high- quality, relationship-centered care. Creating better outcomes for individuals and making social care a career of choice.
SECTION 7: THE SOCIAL CARE TRIPLE WIN
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