Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 8
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 49
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Improving the level of recognition afforded to social care workers must be a key focus for the Government to safeguard the future of the social care workforce. Not to do so would be to fail the many thousands of care workers who have worked so tirelessly during the coronavirus pandemic. Building on initial steps such as the CARE badge and recruitment campaigns for social care, there are a number of practical changes which the Government must make to improve the level of recognition felt by social care professionals and to support the future sustainability of the workforce. These are detailed below and in our recommendations.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 49, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).