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Health Services: Children

Asked by Mr Calvin BaileyLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 20 October 2025UIN 78982

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to publish a children’s health workforce plan.

Answered by Ashley Dalton

The Government is committed to raising the healthiest generation of children ever. Ensuring that there is a robust children’s health workforce will be an essential component to delivering on this ambition.

We will publish a 10 Year Workforce Plan to create a workforce ready to deliver a transformed service, including the children’s health workforce. It will be more empowered, more flexible and more fulfilled. The 10 Year Workforce Plan will ensure the National Health service has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to care for patients, including children, when they need it. There are no plans to publish a separate children’s health workforce plan.

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