Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 37
37
Accepted in Part
Temporary, bank, and agency staff require full access to NHS training.
Recommendation
NHS England must ensure that temporary, bank, and agency staff are given full access to NHS training to allow them to level up their skills, to ensure that they are able to sign up for additional shifts. (Paragraph 141) Working culture, including the experience of ethnic minority health and care workers
Government Response Summary
The government agrees in part to provide better training and career development pathways in social care to drive recruitment and retention and commits to improving knowledge, skills, health and wellbeing and recruitment policies, providing resources through Skills for Care, and removing barriers to collaborative planning and working.
Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government
Accepted in Part
The Government agrees with recommendation 59, insofar that better training and career development pathways in social care will be an essential part of driving recruitment and retention in the sector. In the White Paper People at the Heart of Care, the Government committed to improve social care as a long-term career choice by improving knowledge, skills, health and wellbeing and recruitment policies. Through our continued funding of Skills for Care, the Government provides a range of resources and practical toolkits for social care providers to help them attract, train and retain staff. This includes distributing funding annually through the Workforce Development Fund, which enables employers to bid for financial support towards the training and development of their staff. New learning opportunities, for example, training and online resources to build digital skills in the care sector, are also being provided. Furthermore, we published our Integration White Paper in February 2022 and have committed to work with national and local partners to identify opportunities to remove barriers to collaborative planning and working, to create joint career pathways, and joint learning and training opportunities for the health and social care workforce.