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	registered interest
	date	15/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department intends to establish or encourage national training schemes for care providers to ensure consistency in care provision across the sector.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Ben Howlett
	uin	12118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2015 answer text <p>The introduction of the Care Certificate, a recommendation of the Cavendish Review, will help to improve the consistency of training in the sector. As of 1 April 2015, all new social care support workers and healthcare assistants are expected to attain the new Care Certificate within their first twelve weeks of employment.</p><br /><p>The Department funds Skills for Care, the partner in the sector skills council for social care, to produce a range of resources for workers to develop the knowledge to support people who use the services. This includes the apprenticeships programme which is important in growing a consistently skilled workforce providing high quality care for the future.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 23/10/2015 13:14:05 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	4445 label Biography information for Ben Howlett

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	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Training
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve training and development in the care sector.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5090
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of individual employers to ensure that staff are appropriately trained and competent to carry out the roles they are employed to provide.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department continues to work with Skills for Care to develop a comprehensive suite of standards and qualifications to support employers in developing the care sector workforce.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>From 1 April 2015, the Department is introducing the Care Certificate for new healthcare assistants and social care support workers to enable them to receive the high quality and consistent training and support they need to do their jobs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 06/03/2015 10:53:32 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

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	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Training
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total budget allocated by each appropriate department to support the education and training of non-regulated care staff in each of the last three years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
	uin	HL3523
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2014 answer text <p>Information on the total expenditure on education and training of the adult social care workforce is not available centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of individual social care employers to ensure their staff are appropriately trained and competent to carry out their role. The Department of Health has supported employers to train their staff through the sponsorship of Skills for Care, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and the National Skills Academy for Social Care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Funding to develop the social care workforce (both regulated and non-regulated) has been made available to these organisations as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>£ million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£27.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£31.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>£30.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Notes</em>:</p><p> </p><p>Figures include some social work programmes and in the case of SCIE are funding for e-learning only. The Department does not hold figures for non-regulated care staff only.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Earl Howe question first answered 19/12/2014 14:55:30 answering member 2000 label Biography information for Earl Howe
	tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough