Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to (a) help improve recruitment to social care jobs and (b) protect retention levels for social care staff in Enfield North.

On 3 November 2021, we published details of a new £162.5 million Workforce Recruitment and Retention Fund to support local authorities to work with providers to recruit and retain social care staff this winter. This includes £879,284 for Enfield.

A new phase of our national recruitment campaign to highlight adult social care as a rewarding and stimulating place to work was launched on 3 November across broadcast and social media, running until March 2022.