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...