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Social Services: Career Development

Asked by Rachael MaskellLabour (Co-op)Department of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 30 July 2024UIN 1303

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national career framework for social care staff that is integrated with the job-evaluated Agenda for Change pay and conditions framework in the NHS.

Answered by Stephen Kinnock

Those working in social care have been ignored for too long, and so will be at the heart of our initial reforms. We will start by engaging with care workers and trade unions to deliver a long over-due new deal, which will include establishing the first ever Fair Pay Agreement for care professionals. The details of this will be agreed as part of this process.

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