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1690396

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will develop a long-term workforce plan for the social care sector.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	14913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2024 answer text <p>We set out our national strategy for the social care workforce in our white paper, People at The Heart of Care, in December 2021. In 2023 we published the associated implementation plan, Next Steps to Putting People at the Heart of Care, which outlined our plans to invest in better workforce training, recognition, and career progression.</p><p>Most recently, we announced a package of measures as part of that implementation. This included launching a new national career structure for adult social care as well as funding for a new, accredited social care qualification, and social work and care nursing apprenticeships. By delivering our plan we will help care workers build long-term careers in social care.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/02/2024 13:40:51 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1684032

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help support social care staff to progress in their (a) careers and (b) pay through the care workforce pathway.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	10855
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>The recently published care workforce pathway provides, for the first time, a national career structure for the adult social care sector that defines role categories and supports care workers in their professional development and to progress in their careers. To support the implementation of the pathway the Government is also providing funding for thousands of training places and is developing a new Level 2 Adult Social Care Certificate qualification for the sector.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 01/02/2024 11:21:00 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1679799

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 67 of the People at the Heart of Care white paper, published in December 2021, whether it remains her Department's policy that the remainder of the funding to support the adult social care workforce will be allocated in 2024.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	8203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to the 10-year vision for adult social care set out in the People at the Heart of Care white paper. We want care to be outstanding quality, personalised and accessible. The social care workforce remains at the heart of our reform plans. Our vision is for an adult social care workforce where people feel supported, recognised, and have opportunities to develop and progress. Our workforce reforms will provide the workforce with more support to develop and progress within their careers and will improve the quality, safety, and personalisation of care.</p><p> </p><p>The Next Steps to put People at the Heart of Care plan, published in April 2023, set out how we are investing up to £700 million over this year and next, building on over £100 million already invested in 2022/23. This included substantial investment on workforce reform including a new care workforce pathway, a new level 2 qualification, investment in apprenticeships and funding to pay for thousands of learning and development courses for social care staff. Since then, we have announced an additional £570 million funding boost for local authorities to make tangible improvements to adult social care workforce capacity, including to boost care worker pay.</p><p> </p><p>Despite some delays, we are making good progress and have recently announced the launch of the Pathway, Apprenticeship fund and the specification for the qualification as well as some additional funding for social care staff learning and development. We remain committed to the delivery of the whole programme.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 26/01/2024 12:13:58 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1675321

registered interest
date	29/11/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress her Department has made on reforming the social care workforce.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Miriam Cates
uin	900489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2023 answer text <ul><li><p>We are carrying out ambitious reforms for the care workforce to increase the supply and quality of social care.</p></li><li><p>We will shortly be publishing the Care Workforce Pathway setting out a career path for care workers, together with launching a new care qualification and funding thousands of training places.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 05/12/2023 16:30:54 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4865 label Biography information for Miriam Cates

1660822

registered interest
date	14/09/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase staff (a) recruitment and (b) retention in the adult social care sector.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	199684
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2023 answer text <p>We are investing at least £250 million over the next two years on workforce reforms, a key objective of which is to improve retention and turnover rates.</p><p>In July we announced the £570 million Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund -Workforce Fund to support increased adult social care capacity, improve market sustainability, and enable local authorities to make tangible improvements to adult social care services, with a particular focus on workforce pay. Local authorities can choose to use this funding to increase adult social care workforce and improve retention.</p><p>We are also supporting recruitment and retention by delivering our ongoing National Recruitment Campaign; working with the Department of Work and Pensions to promote adult social care careers to jobseekers; and supporting international recruitment.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 21/09/2023 13:47:33 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1660115

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's planned timescale is for publishing a response to the consultation entitled Care workforce pathway for adult social care, which closed in May 2023.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	199085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>We intend to publish the first version of the Care Workforce Pathway, focused on staff in direct care roles, in autumn 2023. This will include a response to the call for evidence which closed in May 2023.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 18/09/2023 16:04:32 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1612956

registered interest
date	20/04/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that social care capacity is covered in his workforce plan.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	182016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>To support the workforce as a whole, we have commissioned NHS England to develop a NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, including projections for the number of health professionals required in the future. Whilst this is not a workforce plan for Adult Social Care, the Plan will consider regulated health professionals in adult social care.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 26/04/2023 09:53:52 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 71264 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1581993

registered interest
date	30/01/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the (a) average age, (b) gender breakdown and (c) ethnicity of the social care workforce.
tabling member constituency	Leicester West
tabling member printed	Liz Kendall
uin	135224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>Skills for Care have published data which shows that for 1,510,00 filled posts in the adult social care sector in 2021/22, the mean age of workers was 44.6 years, 82% were female while 18% were male, and 77% were white while 23% were from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 07/02/2023 16:31:43 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4026 label Biography information for Liz Kendall

1569046

registered interest
date	20/01/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a 10-year workforce plan for the social care sector.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Bell Ribeiro-Addy
uin	128718
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. We have set out our long-term vision for the social care workforce in the ‘People at the Heart of Care’ white paper, including how Government will invest to support learning and development alongside new frameworks to increase opportunities for career progression and development. In spring 2023, the Government will publish a plan for adult social care system reform which will set out how we will build on the progress so far to implement the vision in the white paper.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 25/01/2023 10:15:08 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4764 label Biography information for Bell Ribeiro-Addy

1567989

registered interest
date	18/01/2023
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: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Social Care of 6 December 2022, Official Report, col 188-190, what steps he plans to take to reform the social care workforce.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
tabling member printed	Mrs Paulette Hamilton
uin	126897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government is making available up to £7.5 billion over two years to support adult social care and discharge, with up to £2.8 billion available in 2023/24 and £4.7 billion in 2024/25.</p><p>In spring 2023, the Government will publish a plan for adult social care system reform. This will set out how we will build on the progress so far to implement the vision for adult social care set out in the People at the Heart of Care White Paper. This includes our plans to reform the social care workforce.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 126900 question first answered 23/01/2023 12:45:00 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4938 label Biography information for Mrs Paulette Hamilton