Times Health Commission Debate
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Lord Scriven
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Times Health Commission
Lord Scriven Excerpts(1 year, 4 months ago)
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Lord Markham (Con)
As I mentioned, we are working on and taking good ideas from there. I know that it is one of the inputs being considered in all this.
Lord Scriven (LD)
My Lords, the Government do not need a Times Health Commission to know that there are 165,000 social care staff vacancies and a 29% turnover of staff in that sector, while 542,000 people are waiting in the community for an assessment of their social care needs. Short-term funding as a sticking plaster is not going to work, so when are the Government going to bring forward a strategic plan, with funding, for social care?
Lord Markham (Con)
As I said, we have already announced big increases in funding, with more than 20% over the next two years. Two years is not the short term. Minister Whately is working very hard on this because we know that the flow in social care is a key element of the whole solution.