Residential Social Care: Staff Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Residential Social Care: Staff

Baroness Blower Excerpts
Monday 6th September 2021

(2 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Bethell Portrait Lord Bethell (Con)
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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 Portrait Baroness Blower (Lab)
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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?