Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to increase staff recruitment and retention in the adult social care sector.

• We have embarked on ambitious reforms for the care workforce, including a new career structure, creating new qualifications, and providing subsidised training places.

• In addition, through grant funding we have made almost £2 billion available to Local Authorities over this year and next with a particular focus on workforce pay, recruitment and retention.

• We have also relaunched the next phase of our “Made with Care” national recruitment campaign which promotes social care as a career.