Source · Select Committees · Health and Social Care Committee
Recommendation 56
56
Not Addressed
Ensure Fair Cost of Care calculations pay social care workers Band 3 NHS rates.
Recommendation
We welcome the Fair Cost of Care exercises as an opportunity to address the underfunding of the social care sector. However, these exercises must not be used as an excuse to reinforce the low pay which is endemic in the sector. The Government must ensure that the cost of care is calculated on the basis of paying care workers the same rate as equivalent NHS roles: Band 3 on Agenda for Change. (Paragraph 186) Workforce: recruitment, training and retention in health and social care 65
Government Response Summary
The government states it has excluded this recommendation from its response because it is a duplication of recommendation 54.
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government
Not Addressed
*In the Committee’s response recommendation 56 is a duplication of recommendation 54, we have therefore excluded this recommendation from our response.