Residential Social Care: Staff

Baroness Bull Excerpts
Monday 6th September 2021

(3 years, 2 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Bethell Portrait Lord Bethell (Con)
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My Lords, the average turnover rate in social care is high, as noted by many noble Lords, as it is in some other sectors, including retail and hospitality. However, turnover rates are 8.1% lower in the past year among social care workers, down from 37.2% to 29.1%, which reassures us that many have in fact found it a fulfilling career.

Baroness Bull Portrait Baroness Bull (CB)
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My Lords, can the Minister say what improvements have been made to staff training in light of the Out Of SightWho Cares? report from the Care Quality Commission, which highlighted the excessive use of restraint, seclusion and segregation in the care of people with learning disabilities and autism in residential settings?

Lord Bethell Portrait Lord Bethell (Con)
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We are enormously grateful for that report, which has made a huge impact. I am not sure of the specific impact of the measures the noble Baroness describes, but I would be glad to write to her.