Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 93527

Social Services: Staff

Tabled: 21 November 2025
Answered: 2 December 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support social-care providers to increase workforce numbers.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock
English local authorities have responsibility under the Care Act 2014 to meet social care needs and statutory guidance directs them to ensure there is sufficient workforce in adult social care (ASC).The Government recognises the scale of the reforms neede...

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