Social care: funding and workforce
Health and Social Care Committee
Closed
Inquiry
The reopened Social care: funding and workforce inquiry seeks to establish how much extra money would need to be spent by government in each of the next five years to counteract the impact of a shortage of care on the NHS. Shortages in the social care workforce and what solutions …
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Recommendations
1
Conclusion
1
Report
4
Oral sessions
2
Letters
4
Events
Activity timeline 8 events
17 Feb
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17 Feb
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10 Nov
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22 Oct
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Report published
8 Sep
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Oral evidence
14 Jul
2020
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Oral evidence
23 Jun
2020
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Oral evidence
9 Jun
2020
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Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 4 sessions
8 Sep 2020
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James Bullion · Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Rt Hon Matt Hancock · Department of Health and Social Care
Sarah Pickup · Local Government Association
14 Jul 2020
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Deborah Gray, care user
Kevin Caulfield · Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council
Pamela King, former carer
Sir Andrew Dilnot · Commission on Funding of Care and Support
The Rt Hon. the Lord Forsyth of Drumlean · Economic Affairs Select Committee (HL)
Yasuhisa Shiozaki, former Minister for Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan
23 Jun 2020
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Jane Townson · UK Homecare Association
Marlene Kelly · Auburn Mere Care Home
Mel Cairnduff · Agincare
Oonagh Smyth · Skills for Care
Professor Martin Green · Care England
Raina Summerson · Agincare
Sue Ann Balcombe · Priscilla Wakefield House Nursing Home
9 Jun 2020
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Social care: funding and workforce
Anita Charlesworth · Health Foundation
Anna Severwright
Daphne Havercroft, former carer and attorney for a social care user
George Stoye · Institute for Fiscal Studies
Paul Little · Suffolk County Council & East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust
Professor Tine Rosgaard, Roskilde University, Denmark
Reports 1 report · click to expand
| Title | HC No. | Published | Items | Response |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce | HC 206 | 22 Oct 2020 | 21 | Responded |
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
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Recommendation
Accepted in Part
Third Report - Social care: fundin…
The Secretary of State has committed to increasing the alignment between the training of NHS...
The Secretary of State has committed to increasing the alignment between the training of NHS and social care staff and his stated ambition being to make it easier for a registered nurse, for example, to move between the NHS and …
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Government Response
The government agrees on the vital need for clear career paths and training, highlighting existing £27 million funding for programmes and a new Chief Nurse role, and committing to explore how to develop clearer pathways and common training standards for greater health and care integration.
Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation
Accepted in Part
Third Report - Social care: fundin…
We are concerned that lower qualified social care workers and those without qualifications at all...
We are concerned that lower qualified social care workers and those without qualifications at all are not eligible for the new NHS visa, not least because it undermines parity of esteem between the health and social care sectors. The Government …
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Government Response
The government is reviewing the eligible occupation list, which *may* include senior social care workers, but states immigration is not the solution for less senior roles, committing to independent research on the impact of new immigration rules.
Department of Health and Social Care
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Correspondence 2 letters
17 Feb 2021
From committee
Letter to the Minister of State for Care on Social care: funding and workforce
Parliament page
10 Nov 2020
To committee
Letter from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on SignHealth
Parliament page