Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what Government support has been made available to encourage the implementation of innovative forms of care and support in the social care sector.

The ‘People at the Heart of Care’ white paper published in December 2021 recognised the transformative role technology and new innovations can play in improving the quality and safety of care. As part of this, we committed to achieving 80% adoption of digital social care records by March 2024 and have launched a scheme to scale care technology where there is proven benefit and build the case for further change and innovation across the sector by testing new ideas. To support these ambitions, we have made £25 million available to integrated care systems.