Carers: Employment
Commons · Question 33416 · Tabled 25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Dame Caroline Dinenage
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of levels of access to adult social care services in England on unpaid carers’ ability to participate in paid employment.
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 11 Mar 2025
Adult social care has a role to play in helping unpaid carers to participate and stay in paid employment. The Government recognises the challenges facing the adult social care system. That is why the Government is launching an independent commission into ...