Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 3
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 35
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
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 at a time when public finances are likely to be stretched, but the pandemic has made it clear that doing nothing is no longer an option. Providing adequate funding for social care will also help the NHS, and may itself have positive economic and long-term social impacts, given that social care is an important part of the economy.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 35, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).