Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 5
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 37
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
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 sense to put in place long term plans for one without the other. Failure to do so is also likely to inhibit reform and lead to higher costs as workforce shortages become more pronounced with higher dependency on agency staff. Reducing the 30% turnover rates typical in the sector will also require a long term, strategic approach to social care pay and conditions.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 37, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).