Residential Social Care: Staff Debate
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Baroness Blower
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Residential Social Care: Staff
Baroness Blower Excerpts(2 years, 10 months ago)
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Lord Bethell (Con)
My Lords, I acknowledge the pressure that local authorities are under. We do indeed keep in very close contact with local authorities that have financial pressure; I assure the noble Baroness that we will not be in a position where we breach the Care Act and that we keep very close tabs on the financial support that social care needs.
Baroness Blower (Lab)
My Lords, there is a recruitment and retention problem in social care and a problem of youth unemployment. Does the Minister believe that his responses provide a basis for any young person to consider a career in social care, particularly his response to my noble friend Lord Hendy?