Care Workers: Mental Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve mental health support for social care workers.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock
Most social care workers are employed by private sector providers who set their pay and terms and conditions, including any occupational health or wellbeing support, independent of the central Government.
We recognise the scale of reforms needed to make the adult social care sector attractive, to support sustainable workforce growth, and to improve the retention of the domestic workforce. We want it to be regarded as a profession, and for the people who work in care to be respected as professionals. We are introducing the first ever Fair Pay Agreement to the adult social care sector so that care professionals are recognised and rewarded for the important work that they do.
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