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<p>We set out our national strategy for the social care workforce in our People at
The Heart of Care white paper in December 2021, and in 2023 we published the associated
implementation plan, Next Steps to Putting People at the Heart of Care. We recently
announced a series of measures as part of that implementation. This includes the launch
of the Care Workforce Pathway, a new national career structure for the adult social
care workforce, an investment of over £20 million for apprenticeships, to support
the training and supervising of hundreds of new social work and nurse apprentices,
and a new digital leadership qualification, to help equip social care leaders and
managers with the confidence and capability to drive the use of technology in the
delivery of care. We plan to announce further phases of our reforms, particularly
related to our reimbursement platform and funding for learning and development, in
the summer.</p>
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