Social Services: Coronavirus

(asked on 5th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how they are seeking to ensure that those working in the social care sector during the COVID-19 outbreak are appropriately rewarded.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 27th July 2020

Social care staff have played, and continue to play, a vital role in the national effort to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. We value the contribution of the workforce on the frontline, alongside their National Heath Service colleagues.

The Department continues to work at pace to develop measures to ensure the workforce gets the recognition and parity of esteem it deserves. For example, we have recently introduced a £600 million Infection Prevention Fund. This helps providers pay for additional staff and/or maintain the normal wages of staff who are self-isolating or have reduced the number of hours they work to stop the spread of infection. This follows a previous £1.6 billion of financial support, which was also able to cover pay costs.

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