Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total budget allocated by each appropriate department to support the education and training of non-regulated care staff in each of the last three years.

Information on the total expenditure on education and training of the adult social care workforce is not available centrally.

It is the responsibility of individual social care employers to ensure their staff are appropriately trained and competent to carry out their role. The Department of Health has supported employers to train their staff through the sponsorship of Skills for Care, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and the National Skills Academy for Social Care.

Funding to develop the social care workforce (both regulated and non-regulated) has been made available to these organisations as follows:

Notes:

Figures include some social work programmes and in the case of SCIE are funding for e-learning only. The Department does not hold figures for non-regulated care staff only.