Source · Select Committees · Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 12
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The Government must bring forward a social care reform package, which includes the whole sector,...
Recommendation
The Government must bring forward a social care reform package, which includes the whole sector, in this financial year. There has been a tendency by successive governments to focus on the problem of rising costs of caring for elderly people, particularly in care homes, and the unfairness of being forced to sell family homes to pay for care in later life. While these are key problems for which solutions must be found, the Government’s reform package must be more wide-ranging, and include actions to improve the quality and personalisation of care and support for working age disabled people across all social care settings. It must address workforce issues across the sector, including low pay, poor career progression and high turnover. Its reforms must include a plan to more effectively integrate services and achieve parity of esteem across health and social care as a single system. The vital importance of the whole social care sector and its workforce has never been so apparent; it must now be valued accordingly. (Paragraph 85) Provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Government has talked to disabled people during the Coronavirus emergency has been confusing for disabled people. Sometimes it has made disabled people more worried about Coronavirus. The Committee says that Ministers and people working for the Government must be made to have training in how to talk best with disabled people and to understand how they feel and what they need. The Government says: Ministers and people working for the Government can choose to have training if they want it. Accessible ways to talk to disabled people