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<p>The Government’s calculations were based on the following criteria:</p><p> </p><p>-
ending wholly unpredictable care costs;</p><p>- providing at least £500 million to
support the adult social care workforce over three years, including funding initiatives
to support mental health and wellbeing and introducing further measures reforms to
improve recruitment; and</p><p>- providing funding to enable all local authorities
to move towards paying providers a fair rate for care, to improve the quality of adult
social care services, workforce conditions and increase investment.</p><p> </p><p>The
Government will work with care users, providers and other stakeholders to develop
plans for the reform of adult social care, including the development of a new training
and qualifications offer for the care sector, in a white paper later this year.</p>
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