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
Oral evidence sessions 4 sessions
James Bullion · Association of Directors of Adult Social Services Rt Hon Matt Hancock · Department of Health and Social Care Sarah Pickup · Local Government Association
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
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
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
Recommendations & Conclusions
1 result
3 Recommendation Not Addressed
Third Report - Social care: fundin…
The crisis in social care funding has been brought into sharp focus by the COVID-19...
The crisis in social care funding has been brought into sharp focus by the COVID-19 pandemic, and this must now be addressed by Government as a matter of the utmost urgency. The funding increase we are calling for is significant … Read more
Government Response
The government refers the committee to another section of its report for details of existing social care funding provided during the pandemic and at the 2020 Spending Review.
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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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