Interviews

Children’s homes across Bury are facing growing staffing instability as experienced Residential Support Workers are pulled toward higher-paying Manchester and Bolton providers via the M66 and Metrolink corridors. This article explores the “Bury squeeze”, including commuter churn, postcode-targeted recruitment, North West Framework compliance pressures and the importance of building stable local teams to protect Ofsted outcomes, occupancy levels and local authority referrals.

Children’s homes across Brighton and East Sussex are facing growing staffing instability as high living costs, commuter fatigue and heavy agency reliance continue to fuel turnover in the residential care workforce. This article explores the “coastal churn” affecting Brighton providers, including hyper-local recruitment, values-based hiring and resilience-focused vetting strategies designed to build stable therapeutic teams for complex EBD and high-acuity care settings.

As children’s residential care provision continues to expand across Walsall and the wider Black Country, many providers are battling a “revolving door” staffing culture driven by candidate poaching between Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley. This article explores how values-based recruitment, locational loyalty and specialist matching can help Walsall homes reduce agency reliance, improve continuity of care and build stable long-term teams for EBD, ld and trauma-focused set

Following the full implementation of Stable Homes, Built on Love, children’s residential providers are under growing pressure to recruit Residential Support Workers who can build purposeful, stable relationships with young people. This article explores values-based recruitment, relational resilience and kinship-focused interviewing within the 2026 Ofsted and safeguarding climate.