Leading care sector luminaries tackle the challenges facing social care and celebrate its great work in the latest specialist episode of Voices of Care.

Hosted by Suhail Mirza in partnership with Caring Times at this month’s Care Managers Show at ExCeL London, the podcast features some of the most prominent voices in the sector.

Mirza said: “In this Care Managers Show special, we speak to a number of luminaries from across the care sector who share some of their challenges and frustrations, whilst also celebrating the great work the sector undertakes.

“The adult social care sector employs more people than the NHS, adds over £55 billion of value  to the economy and can act as a powerful source to support empowerment and ‘levelling up’ in challenged communities. Despite this the Autumn Statement missed the opportunity to view the sector as an investment and unleash its economic potential.

“The government commitment to fix social care made as part of its electoral mandate in 2019 has demonstrably failed to be delivered. The silence about social care in the Kings Speech was deafening and unlike the NHS the failure to have a long-term workforce strategy for social care perhaps speaks to how much the government truly values the sector. 

“These voices of the sector need to be listened to and I hope those at the heart of policy take note and listen.”

You can watch the special episode here.