NEON (National Equal Opportunities Network) Special Feature
Caring Counts: Report of the Inquiry into the Aged Care Workforce
Click the links below to view individual sections from Caring Counts
Part 1
– Foreword
– Recommendations
– Timetable for implementation
Part 2
– Why this Inquiry?
– About the Human Rights Commission
– Terms of Reference
– How we conducted the Inquiry
– Terminology
– Issues looked at in the Inquiry
Part 3
– Respect and value
– Workforce supply, recruitment and retention
– Conditions of work
– Wages and pay parity
– Carers – community and residential facilities
– The gendered nature of caring
– Pay issues
– Financial modelling
– Transparency and consistency
– Transferring resources
– Pay issues for registered nurses and other workers
– Conclusion
– Staff to resident ratios
– Training and qualifications
– Changing service models and developing skill sets
– Minimum training levels for support workers
– Qualifications and rewards
– Value of training
– Career path
– Challenges
– Qualifications, training and the regulated workforce
– Conclusion
– Managerial competence
– Men as carers
– Migrant workforce
– Migrant workers in the aged care sector
– Overseas trained nurses
– English language requirements for registration
– Work visas – the union view
– Work visas – the employers view
– Cultural and language differences
– Conclusion
– Regulatory frameworks
– Regulation of the workforce
– Regulation of services
– Integration and coordination of services
– Conclusion
Part 4
– Diary of a carer
– Maori in aged care
– Impact of Christchurch earthquake
Part 5
– Financial modelling
– Human rights framework
– Literature review
