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MANAGING AN AGEING WORKFORCE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

Monday 20 June 2005, London

The conference is being organised jointly by CROW and NIACE, at the request of the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), which has identified health and social care as a priority sector for development in the South East (Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire)

The health and social care services face growing skill gaps and shortages. The workforce is ageing, and the numbers of new recruits do not match the numbers retiring, many of them early. The problem is particularly severe in the South East where a strong economy is pushing up pay and living costs, making public sector work uncompetitive. 

One solution to the problem would be to persuade older staff to stay longer. However, we know relatively little about older people's attitudes to work, and about ways of organising work which would make it more attractive. While Government is encouraging people to stay in work longer (age discrimination becomes illegal next year) and there have been retention initiatives in the NHS, real retirement ages are not rising.

The conference is relevant to all Human Resource professionals, those responsible for the organisation of work and workforce planning in health and social care and academic researchers concerned with the workforce based in the South East region and nationally.

The speakers are drawn from the NHS nationally and within the Region, and from academic researchers. They will describe recent research, and current innovative practice. 

CROW is a research Centre of the University of Surrey, funded by SEEDA and supported by the European Social Fund to study the behaviour of older workforce and how employers can make better use of older people. 

For further information visit the NIACE website http://www.niace.org.uk/Conferences/ageingworkforce.htm
Or contact Gurjit Kaur on Tel: 0116 2042833 Email: [log in to unmask]

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