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Third Report - Social care: funding and workforce
Health and Social Care Committee
HC 206
Published 22 October 2020
Government response
Social care: funding and workforce: Government Response to the Committee's Third Report of Session 2019-21 · published 17 Feb 2021
Recommendations & Conclusions
14
Recommendation
Rejected
Para 72
The Government must ensure that transitional arrangements are in place to ensure that social care...
Recommendation
The Government must ensure that transitional arrangements are in place to ensure that social care workers can continue to be recruited from overseas for as long as it takes to build sufficient resilience in the domestic supply of social care …
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Government Response Summary
The government rejects the recommendation for transitional arrangements to recruit social care workers from overseas, stating that immigration should not be the solution to recruitment challenges. Instead, it expresses confidence in domestic recruitment, detailing initiatives like the Join Social Care tool and free rapid induction training, and recognizes the need to address wider workforce issues.
Department of Health and Social Care
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