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969445

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	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 and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the number of people (a) applying for and (b) taking up a place on the Step Up to Social Work programme; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	171656
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2018 answer text <p>Responsibility for the Social Work profession is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care who are responsible for social work with adults and Department for Education who are responsible for social work with children and families. The Departments share a common policy of increasing the quality of social workers through education and continuing professional development, and maintaining sufficient numbers of social workers.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretaries of State, Ministers and the Chief Social Workers for England meet regularly to discuss and align policy on social work and the departments have active programmes to ensure the effective recruitment, retention, training and development of the social work profession.</p><p> </p><p>The Step up to Social Work programme is fully funded by the Department of Education since 2010 and is specifically aimed at increasing the number of social workers who work with children and families.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretaries of State of the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department of Education have not met specifically to discuss the Step up to Social Work programme.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Education have told us that four cohorts have now completed the programme with just over 1100 social workers finishing. Cohort 5 started in January 2018 and cohort 6 is planned to start in 2020. For cohort 5, there were 4391 applications with 563 people starting. The Department of Health and Social Care does not have any further details on the number of applications.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/09/2018 13:21:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

845777

	registered interest
	date	20/02/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	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 and Social Care what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of work place training in the care sector; and whether such training is within the remit of the Care Quality Commission.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	128749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2018 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of social care provider organisations to ensure their employees are suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced. They are also responsible for ensuring their employees receive appropriate support, training and professional development, to enable them to carry out the duties they are employed to perform.</p><p> </p><p>The role of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is not to assess work place training within the care sector or if the correct training provision is provided. The CQC’s remit is to understand whether or not the regulated provider can demonstrate that they have adequate numbers of appropriately skilled, competent and knowledgeable staff in place to meet the needs of those they provide a service to.</p><p> </p><p>Where the CQC observes or has evidence that staff are not being supported, trained or enabled to do their job safely or effectively, and determines that this has an impact on the quality and safety of care people are experiencing, it may take action.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/02/2018 13:14:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

631870

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2016
	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, what steps his Department is taking to increase the level of investment in training for 16 to 25 year olds in the adult care sector.
	tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
	tabling member printed	Graham Jones
	uin	52308
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department continues to spend significant levels of funding to train and develop the adult social care workforce, including those aged between 16-25.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016/17, the Department will provide £23 million in funding to Skills for Care for the training and development of the adult social care workforce including for 16-25 year olds. This includes £12 million for the Workforce Development Fund which provides support to employers for modules and qualifications for their workers in adults’ services in the private and voluntary sectors.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is working closely with the sector skills council partner, Skills for Care, through programmes such as apprenticeships in social care and Care Ambassadors which promote positive image of the sector in schools and colleges.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 17/11/2016 11:56:44 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
	tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

421723

	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

222749

	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

168493

	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