Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve workforce retention rates in adult social care.

We are investing at least £250 million over the next two years on workforce reforms, a key objective of which is to improve retention and turnover rates.

In July we announced the £570 million Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund – Workforce Fund to support increased adult social care capacity, improve market sustainability, and enable local authorities to make tangible improvements to adult social care services, with a particular focus on workforce pay. Local authorities can choose to use this funding to increase the adult social care workforce and improve retention.