Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 4
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 36
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We believe the starting point must be an increase in annual funding of £3.9 bn by 2023–24 to meet demographic changes and planned increases in the National Living Wage. However such an increase alone will not address shortfalls in the quality of care currently provided, reverse the decline in access or stop the market retreating to providing only for self-payers. Further funding to address these issues is therefore also required as a matter of urgency.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 36, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).