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Children’s homes providers face staffing crisis, ICHA warns

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Children’s homes are facing the highest level of staff turnover on record, according to the Independent Children’s Homes Association (ICHA).
Peter Sandiford: 'Staffing remains a critical and incredibly costly challenge to existing provision'. Picture: ICHA
Peter Sandiford: 'Staffing remains a critical and incredibly costly challenge to existing provision'. Picture: ICHA

The organisation’s State of the Sector report for 2022 finds that more than 60 per cent of providers reported staff turnover greater than one in five members of staff in the year to May 2022.

This represents the highest levels of turnover since the ICHA began recording data in 2015.

It also shows an increase of 36 per cent of providers facing the same turnover rates compared with the previous 12 months, according to the report.

Large providers have been worst hit by high staff turnover compared with smaller providers, it adds, noting that 17 per cent of large respondents reported levels of staff turnover below 10 per cent compared with 21 per cent of small providers. 

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