Social care: funding and workforce

Health and Social Care Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 10 Mar 2020 Closed: 26 Oct 2021 Parliament page
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 … Read more
20 Recommendations
1 Conclusion
1 Report
4 Oral sessions
2 Letters
4 Events
Activity timeline 8 events
17 Feb
2021
Report published
17 Feb
2021
Correspondence
10 Nov
2020
Correspondence
22 Oct
2020
Report published
8 Sep
2020
Oral evidence
14 Jul
2020
Oral evidence
23 Jun
2020
Oral evidence
9 Jun
2020
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
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce HC 206 22 Oct 2020 21 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
7 results
Clear
5 Recommendation Deferred
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Alongside such a long term funding settlement we strongly believe the government should publish a...
Alongside such a long term funding settlement we strongly believe the government should publish a 10 year plan for the social care sector as it has done for the NHS. The two systems are increasingly linked and it makes no … Read more
Government Response
The government acknowledges the long-term challenges in social care but states its current priority is the COVID-19 pandemic. It commits to bringing forward proposals for sustainable improvement in 2021, but does not agree to publish a specific 10-year plan for the social care sector.
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16 Recommendation Deferred
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The current system is unfair, confusing, demeaning, and frightening for the most vulnerable people in...
The current system is unfair, confusing, demeaning, and frightening for the most vulnerable people in our society, and their families. It is therefore essential that the Government tackle the problems in the care sector as a priority. The success of … Read more
Government Response
The government acknowledges the urgency of social care reform and its commitment to sustainable improvement, stating it will bring forward proposals in 2021 while prioritising market stabilisation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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17 Recommendation Deferred
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The Lords Economic Affairs Committee’s report makes a persuasive case for the introduction of free...
The Lords Economic Affairs Committee’s report makes a persuasive case for the introduction of free personal care. This would cost around £5bn per year, which is only a small fraction of what is currently spent on NHS care. It would … Read more
Government Response
The government acknowledges the long-term challenges to the social care system and its commitment to sustainable improvement. However, it defers a decision on the introduction of free personal care, stating its current priority is stabilizing the market during the pandemic and that proposals for the social care system will be brought forward in 2021.
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18 Recommendation Deferred
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We also strongly endorse a lifetime cap on care costs which could be implemented swiftly...
We also strongly endorse a lifetime cap on care costs which could be implemented swiftly under the provisions of the Care Act 2014. Such a change would focuses resources on the most severely affected people, protecting those with very high … Read more
Government Response
The government acknowledges the long-term challenges in social care and its commitment to sustainable improvement. However, it prioritises current COVID-19 response and market stabilisation, deferring specific proposals, including a lifetime cap on care costs, to be brought forward in 2021.
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19 Recommendation Deferred
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating consequences both for vulnerable people using social care, and...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating consequences both for vulnerable people using social care, and for the committed professional workforce that provide that care. These challenges have been exacerbated by long-standing funding and workforce issues which need to be recognised … Read more
Government Response
The government stated its priority was stabilizing adult social care during the pandemic through a one-year spending review, and committed to bringing forward sustainable improvement proposals in 2021, implicitly deferring the specific timeline requested.
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20 Recommendation Deferred
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We believe that the starting point for the social care funding increase must be an...
We believe that the starting point for the social care funding increase must be an additional £7bn per year by 2023–24 to cover demographic changes, uplift staff pay in line with the National Minimum Wage and to protect people who … Read more
Government Response
The government acknowledges the long-term challenges in social care but does not commit to the recommended additional £7 billion per year by 2023-24. Instead, it prioritizes stabilizing the market during the pandemic through the one-year 2020 Spending Review and states it will bring forward further proposals for sustainable improvement in 2021.
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21 Conclusion Deferred
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But we are clear that this is only a starting point.
But we are clear that this is only a starting point. It will not provide any improvement in access to care, which is urgently needed and would be improved through introducing free personal care as recommended by previous select committee … Read more
Government Response
The government stated its current priority is stabilizing adult social care during the pandemic and committed to bringing forward proposals for sustainable improvement in 2021, but did not specifically address the re-endorsed recommendation for free personal care or the estimated higher funding costs.
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Government Response AI assessment · 21 of 20 classified
Accepted 5
Accepted in Part 2
Acknowledged 5
Deferred 7
Not Addressed 1
Rejected 1
Total 20 recs + 1 conclusion
Correspondence 2 letters
17 Feb 2021 From committee Letter to the Minister of State for Care on Social care: funding and workforce
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10 Nov 2020 To committee Letter from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on SignHealth
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