Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recent survey by the National Care Forum, published on 31 August 2021, which found that 74 per cent of providers of social care services had seen an increase in staff exits since April 2021, what steps he is taking to reduce the turnover rate of social care staff.

The Department has put in place measures to retain staff which includes a package of wellbeing support such as helplines and we have set out our intention to make care work a more rewarding vocation, offering a career where people can develop new skills.

We will invest at least £500 million across three years in social care workforce professionalisation and development and wellbeing and mental health support, which will support retention of staff in the sector.