Social Care

Melanie Onn Excerpts

Wednesday 25th April 2018 Commons Chamber

[Anna Turley]

My hon. Friend raises an important point. Much has been said today about the prestige of the sector and that suggestion would go a long way to addressing that.

[Melanie Onn (Great Grimsby) (Lab)]

To follow up on the issue of training, it is important that people who are going into people’s homes to care for them or who care for people in a home setting have all the training they require to perform the duties that are expected of them. Too often, they are not given the training they need and are expected to do far more than they are qualified to do.

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Sir Lindsay Hoyle)]

I believe there is a voluntary time limit of seven minutes. We are in danger of spoiling that. If we do, I will have to bring in a time limit of about 5 minutes. I do not want to do that, so I need Members to help me ensure that everybody gets an equal amount of time.