Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 15
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 73
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We are concerned that lower qualified social care workers and those without qualifications at all are not eligible for the new NHS visa, not least because it undermines parity of esteem between the health and social care sectors. The Government should accept the MAC’s recent recommendation to add senior social care workers to the shortage occupation list. We welcome the MAC’s plans to conduct further research on the social care workforce: this research should consider the impact of new immigration rules on the ability of care providers to recruit to less senior roles.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 73, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).