A staff survey of Ministry of Child and Family Development (MCFD) members has confirmed what activists have been telling the union – that recent hiring efforts has provided only limited positive impact to date, and in many cases has increased workload for MCFD staff.
To provide a deeper understanding of the impact of hiring, the union decided to directly engage with members in frontline MCFD positions about the impacts of additional hiring on working conditions, caseloads, and the overall quality of services to children and families.
The survey was distributed to 2,674 Components 6 and 12 members, with 880 members responding. The survey results suggest that "recent hiring in MCFD seems to have had mixed results. While most respondents (88 per cent) report that there has been hiring over the past 12 months, slightly more than half say it has not had any impact on their workload. This may be due to high rates of attrition and turnover reported by respondents (85 per cent said staff had left their workplace over the past 12 months), and unfilled positions at many offices (as reported by 62.5 per cent of respondents)."
"More problematically, about one-fifth of those respondents who provided written comments indicated that training and mentoring responsibilities were actually increasing their workload, and that many new hires have not been adequately trained. Many commenters also indicated that hiring of administrative staff has not been keeping pace with the increased volume of work related to increases in social work staffing in some offices."
• Download a copy of the Briefing Note with a summary of survey results.
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