Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 12
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 62
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Secretary of State has committed to increasing the alignment between the training of NHS and social care staff and his stated ambition being to make it easier for a registered nurse, for example, to move between the NHS and social care is an important one. We await more detail about how this increased alignment will be achieved. It is important that this increase in alignment of training is not focused solely on nurses and other social care workers with a registered qualification, or allowing care staff to more easily move to higher paying roles in the NHS. Establishing a clear career path with substantial training opportunities, more effectively aligned with the NHS is vital for all entrants to the social care workforce.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 62, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).