Social care should not be seen as a “national living wage” ȷob, says minister

Social care staff should be better rewarded for their work and their role should never be seen as a “national living wage” job, MPs have been told by a government minister.During an oral evidence session held on 2 May on reform and funding of adult social care, MPs on the parliamentary health and social care committee challenged social care minister Helen Whately about the state of the sector.MPs asked the minister to explain why the government had recently said it was halving the previously announced funding allocated to develop the social care workforce from £500m to £250m.Whately said, “In the reforms that we set out for the Next Steps to Put People at the Heart of Care policy paper1 a couple of weeks ago, the workforce was at the heart of those reforms.” The paper’s reforms around social care “workforce pathways” included setting rules on how to progress in social…
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