Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 46
46
Serious recruitment and retention problems in children's social care workforce require wholesale review.
Recommendation
There is a serious problem with recruitment and retention in the social care workforce. High turnover and overstretched staff are exacerbating the instability experienced by children in care and increase the risk of 89 safeguarding concerns being overlooked. The Department for Education has begun to address this with the planned induction programme and regulations on the use of agency workers, but a wholesale review of the workforce is needed. (Conclusion, Paragraph 112)
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 17 October 2025. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗