The official All Party Parliamentary Group on Social Care. Joint Chairs: Louise Haigh MP & Gillian Keegan MP. Vice Chair: Damian Green MP.
Joined February 2019
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The case for professionalisation restated by our Joint Chair @GillianKeegan politicshome.com/news/uk/soc…
Important intervention from @NuffieldTrust & @TheKingsFund @HealthFdn Our Inquiry report made clear the group would support a social care sector exemption for this policy, or a new sectoral visa: nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-it…
‘Everyday hundreds of thousands of people get up and go to work in social care, some have been
working throughout the night, others live in the places they work. They are often invisible in public. This report places them centre-stage.’
@JillManthorpe
‘Nurses and healthcare assistants working in our NHS are rightly cherished by the public & courted by political actors, but the same cannot be said for their colleagues providing all levels of vital care that is increasingly medicalised & complex.’
@LouHaigh @GillianKeegan
‘This Inquiry recommends that all sectoral stake holders and indeed policy makers and politicians now commit to the elevation of the multi-faceted, complex, increasingly highly skilled/medicalised social care workforce up to NHS parity.’ @cj_dinenage @KeeleyMP
Many thanks indeed to @skillsforcare for crucial work & an invaluable contribution to the inquiry report...
See our statement on the APPG on Social Care report focusing on the workforce issues in social care, calling for professionalisation of care workers.
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“This is personal care now. Having to give someone a wash or a shower. Changing stomas or catheter bags. PEG feeds, controlled drugs, nebulisers.”
[Care worker evidence]
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‘This report is unique in moving from lamentation, how bad and sad many things are, to practicable policy recommendations. It has chartered a course to the professionalisation of the social care workforce, having identified that this is the optimal development’
@JillManthorpe
‘We believe that by putting party political differences to one side we can help to deliver a system that both care workers & the cared for deserve. It is time to value, respect & elevate those who work so hard to provide care...’
@GillianKeegan @LouHaigh
A cross party proposal for immediate reform has been presented & received dozens of endorsements in less than 8 hours... appgsocialcare.org.uk/report…
Thanks @LGAcomms
“Social care work should be seen as valuable and rewarding in its own right and achieving parity of esteem between the NHS and social care workforces is important." @ianhudspeth responds to new @SCappg report
#ProfessionalCareWorkersDay | #CouncilsCan
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THREAD: on #ProfessionalCareWorkersDay our 6 month, cross-party inquiry has now reported, & recommends urgent & fundamental reform of the #socialcare sector. Key to this reform is serious funding tied to the simultaneous professionalisation of the workforce, which is in crisis...