Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 13
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 67
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
As part of its long-term proposals for the future of social care, we recommend that the Government work with Skills for Care and the social care sector to bring forward a plan to streamline the training of social care workers in order to improve routes of entry to the profession and improve career progression for existing social care workers. The plan should include proposals to improve alignment with training for NHS staff and to improve the professional recognition of social care staff. We further recommend that the workforce development fund be expanded to implement the plan, ensuring that all staff are able to access funding for training and career development.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 67, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).