Social Care Workers

Debate between Lord Fowler and Baroness Pitkeathley

Wednesday 7th October 2020 Lords Chamber

[The Lord Speaker (Lord Fowler)]

Short supplementaries, please.

[Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab) [V]]

My Lords, when there is a shortage of care workers, as there clearly is, the need for care does not go away; it simply falls disproportionately on the families and neighbours—the unpaid carers. Some 70% of these say that they have had to give more care than previously during the pandemic, with an average of 10 hours extra a week. How will these extra burdens on unpaid carers be recognised and supported both in the long-term plan and in social care reform, when we eventually get it?