of those working in home care, two thirds say they re no longer able to take new clients. and in care homes, nearly half say they ve closed to new residents. staff vacancies were high before omicron amongst those who responded now they have about 14% of their staff off sick or self isolating. the levels of staff absence that we re talking about right now are incredibly hard to sustain. you re putting enormous pressure on the people who are already there, and what we don t need is or them to sort of cave under and what we don t need is for them to sort of cave under the pressure of that. and once omicron peaks and moves on, perhaps we ll lose some of those immediate absences, but we ll have that growing level of vacancies, and that s what we have to address. council teams are also under huge pressure as they try to ensure everyone eligible for care gets support. the government has said it s put significant extra money into the care system, and into recruiting more care staff. alison h
so what is it that s holding you back from doing that? the staffing level. so if we had good, experienced staff with us, then we d be able to take on more packages of care. care providers running more than 5,000 services across the uk and employing nearly 100,000 staff responded to questions from an organisation representing them. of those working in home care, two thirds say they re no longer able to take new clients. and in care homes, nearly half say they ve closed to new residents. staff vacancies were high before 0micron amongst those who responded now they have about 14% of their staff off sick or self isolating. the levels of staff absence that we re talking about right now are incredibly hard to sustain. you re putting enormous pressure on the people who are already there, and what we don t need is for them to sort of cave under the pressure of that. and once 0micron peaks and moves on, perhaps we ll lose some
there are local recruitment campaigns, and extra money has been put in by government, but at the moment, the pressures on care services remain acute. alison holt, bbc news. kate terroni is the chief inspector of adult social care at the care quality commission, she told me she s concerned about the growing number of staff vacancies in the sector. it matters so much because people having highly trained, caring, compassionate staff at the right numbers to provide that person centred support is a key contributor to people getting high quality care and that is our area of focus. what s important to us is being assured that people receive high quality person centred care. that is why today we are launching our because we all care campaign because we are really keen to hear from anyone who accesses health and social care, be it themselves, a loved one or people who work in the sector, to tell us about the quality of that care, tell us what s working well, what could work better and anythin
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