Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to establish a national pay framework for the children’s social care workforce; and if he will use the NHS Agenda for Change framework as an example of potential job evaluated scheme for that workforce.

The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care recommended the introduction of national pay scales for the social worker workforce. The department will closely consider this recommendation, as well as the other recommendations from the Review’s final report, and will respond with an implementation strategy by the end of the year.