Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the needs and views of people with dementia are taken into account in any workforce plan that forms part of the forthcoming social care reform proposals.

We are working closely with local and national partners from across the sector, including those with dementia and lived experience of the social care system, to ensure that our approach to reform is informed by diverse perspectives.

Together with stakeholders we are considering how we build back fairer to deliver the sustainable improvements to adult social care that we all want to see. We will bring forward proposals for reform later in 2021, including for the social care workforce.