Written questions

Social Services: Staff

Commons · Question 93527 · Tabled 21 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 2 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support social-care providers to increase workforce numbers.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 2 Dec 2025

English local authorities have responsibility under the Care Act 2014 to meet social care needs and statutory guidance directs them to ensure there is sufficient workforce in adult social care (ASC).The Government recognises the scale of the reforms neede...