Learning Disability: Social Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the learning disability workforce.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan to set out action to create a workforce ready to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10-Year Health Plan.
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, when they need it. We are working through how the plan will articulate the changes for different professional groups.
NHS staff told us through the 10-Year Health Plan engagement that they are crying out for change. The 10 Year Workforce Plan will set out how we will deliver that change by making sure that staff are better treated, have better training, more fulfilling roles, and hope for the future.
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