Not-for-profit providers face ‘immense challenges’ with staffing

Almost two-thirds of not-for-profit social care organisations in Scotland have grown recruitment spend but vacancy rates remain high, according to research. Responses in the Social Care Benchmarking Report 2023 show sector-wide sustainability issues with recruitment, retention and staffing persist. Across 2022/23, 95% of organisations surveyed found it either ‘very difficult’ or ‘quite difficult’ to recruit…