Select committee: Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 20
Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Published 22 Oct 2020
Paragraph 104
Addressed to Department of Health and Social Care
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We believe that the starting point for the social care funding increase must be an additional £7bn per year by 2023–24 to cover demographic changes, uplift staff pay in line with the National Minimum Wage and to protect people who face catastrophic social care costs. This represents a 34% increase from the 2023–24 £20.4bn adult social care baseline projected budget at today’s prices. In this report we have not examined how such an increase could be funded but we recognise the challenges involved and the need for innovative thinking to address them.
From: Health and Social Care Committee, Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce (HC 206), paragraph 104, 22 October 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 17 February 2021 (deadline 22 December 2020).