Found: February 2023 b.Funding early-stage welfare benefits advice via civil legal aid would reduce burdens on adult

Found: 2022–23 Number Title Reference 1st The regulation of social housing HC 18 2nd Long-term funding of adult

Found: Mandatory signposting for all adult social care providers to our service . 2.

Found: to companies in distress HC 425 21st Levelling up funding to local government HC 424 22nd Reforming adult

Found: Minister of State for Social Care relating to funding to accelerate adult social care reform and innovation

Found: More broadly, to support the adult social care sector, the Government has now made available up to £8.6

Found: when people have spoken about pressures in local authority budgets, a lot of the focus has been on adult

Found: social care sector, with the MAC saying that the Government have tacitly accepted this.

Found: social care sector, with the MAC saying that the Government have tacitly accepted this.

Found: infrastructure and mobile connectivity shortly. 3 • Our work on core public service challenges looked at adult

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which the 2021 NICE guidance for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has been implemented (1) in general, and (2) in relation to the training health and social care professionals on how to employ the new recommendations, (a) establishing a UK-wide network of hospital-based ME/CFS specialist services, (b) making all NHS services accessible and capable of providing personalised ongoing care and support to those with ME/CFS, and (c) ensuring social care provision for ME/CFS is monitored and regularly reviewed.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

No formal assessment has been made of the extent to which the 2021 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), has been implemented.

NHS England does not centrally commission services for ME. Services to support people living with ME are commissioned by integrated care boards (ICBs) to meet the needs of their local population, and are not reviewed or assessed by NHS England centrally. In October 2023, the British Association of Clinicians in ME published their ME/CFS National Services Survey 2023. This survey provides insight on the services being delivered for adults, and children and young people, living with ME. A copy of the survey is attached.

In relation to the training of health and social care professionals, it is the duty of clinicians to keep themselves appraised of best practice, in particular guidance issued by the NICE. The Department is working with NHS England to develop an e-learning course on ME for healthcare professionals, with the aim of supporting staff to be able to provide better care and improve patient outcomes. This has involved feedback and input from the ME Research Collaborative (MERC) Patient Advisory Group. The Medical Schools Council will promote the NHS England e-learning package on ME to all United Kingdom medical schools, and encourage medical schools to provide undergraduates with direct patient experience of ME.

The Department published My full reality: an interim delivery plan for ME/CFS in August 2023, which sets out a number of actions to improve the experiences and outcomes for people living with the condition, including better education of professionals and improvements to service provision. More information about the interim plan is available on the GOV.UK website, in an online only format.

Alongside the publication of the interim delivery plan, we ran a public consultation to build a picture of how well the plan meets the needs of the ME community, and to understand if there are any gaps where further action may be necessary. The Department is currently analysing over 3,000 responses to the consultation on the interim delivery plan on ME, and will publish a final delivery plan later this year.

In relation to the monitoring of social care provision for individuals with ME, the Department has made a landmark shift in how we hold local authorities to account for their adult social care duties, through a new Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment. The CQC will examine how well local authorities deliver their Care Act duties, increasing transparency and accountability and, most importantly, driving improved outcomes for people, including those with ME, who draw on care and support. The CQC completed five pilot assessments and is now rolling out assessment to all local authorities.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the adequacy of funding for social care.

Answered by Laura Trott - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

The government has made available up to £8.6bn in additional funding over this financial year and next to support adult social care and discharge. This includes £500m announced in January which has specifically been made available to support local authorities with the cost of social care in 2024-25 in response to representations from local government stakeholders. This funding will enable local authorities to buy more care packages, help people leave hospital on time, improve workforce recruitment and retention, and reduce waiting times for care.

At Spring Budget, the government announced it is investing £165 million over the next 4 years to significantly expand the capacity of the children’s home estate in England, improving outcomes for looked after children and unlocking productivity savings by reducing local government reliance on emergency provision. The government is also exploring further ways to combat profiteering and bring down costs in the children’s care market. This is in addition to the £200 million the government has already committed in response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he has held discussions with adult social care providers on potential future risks to the local financing of the provision of care.

Answered by Simon Hoare - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

Through the Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25, we are providing over £1.5 billion in additional grant for social care compared to 2023-24. This is part of an above-inflation increase in Core Spending Power for local government from 2023-24 of up to £4.5 billion, or 7.5% in cash terms.

Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on gov.uk.

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to support local authorities to deliver adult social care.

Answered by Simon Hoare - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

Through the Local Government Finance Settlement for 2024-25, we are providing over £1.5 billion in additional grant for social care compared to 2023-24. This is part of an above-inflation increase in Core Spending Power for local government from 2023-24 of up to £4.5 billion, or 7.5% in cash terms.

Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published on gov.uk.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to increase adult social care capacity in South Holland and the Deepings constituency.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Government has made up to £8.6 billion available in additional funding over this financial year and next, to support adult social care and discharge. This includes nearly £2 billion being made available to local authorities over two years through the Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund, which is specifically designed to support increased adult social care capacity. Local authorities can choose to use the funding to increase fee rates paid to adult social care providers, increase adult social care workforce capacity and retention, and reduce adult social care waiting times. Lincolnshire County Council received a total of just over £13 million through this fund in 2023/24, and are set to receive nearly £15 million in 2024/25. This is in addition to the broader funding that is available to Lincolnshire to spend on adult social care.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the cost to (a) the public purse and (b) social care providers of increasing pay for staff in the social care sector by 65p per hour.

Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department has previously estimated that the cost to the public purse of raising minimum pay in adult social care to the National Living Wage plus 65p is approximately £600 million per year. This includes direct care staff only and excludes ancillary staff.

This estimate does not include the additional costs of higher pay which would be borne by the group of at least 221,000 ‘self-funders’ in care homes and using community care who pay for their own care.

Found: Personalised commissioning in adult social care (2016) shows the importance of sharing learning.

Found: Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001) • Social Care Wales; or (m) an organisation providing adult

Found: Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001) • Social Care Wales; or (m) an organisation providing adult

Found: Adult social care and children’s services were most negatively impacted, and this would hinder fundamental

Found: Adult Social Care Training and Development Fund

Found: It should be read alongside the Adult Social Care Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund grant determination

Found: according to, for example, type and core spending power, but also across service areas (for example, adult

Found: our- inspections/ Care Quality Commission (CQC) CQC is the independent regulator of health and adult

Found: While being mindful of the level of adult social care provision, where possible councils should use

Found: While being mindful of the level of adult social care provision, where possible councils should use

Found: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: April 2024

Found: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: April 2024

Found: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: April 2024

Found: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: April 2024

Found: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: April 2024

Found: Adult social care in England, monthly statistics: April 2025

Found: These include: ● a proposal to re -introduce adult social care datasets into the NFI work programme

Found: and financing England: 20 21 to 202 2 final outturn (publishing.service.gov.uk) Education 32.5% Adult

Found: Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001) • Social Care Wales; or (m) an organisation providing adult

Found: Social Care 600/0048/X UCAS Point Qualification Term time checkpoint 1 02-Jan-24 09-Feb-24 N/A NCFE

Found: result to centres 12-Aug-24 12-Aug-24 N/A NCFE NCFE CACHE Level 3 Certificate in Preparing to Work in Adult

Found: SOCIAL CARE (QCF) 501/1586/8 BTEC Specialist and Professional Annual Quality Declaration submission

Found: Infection prevention and control in adult social care: acute respiratory infection

Found: Infection prevention and control in adult social care: acute respiratory infection

Found: our- inspections/ Care Quality Commission (CQC) CQC is the independent regulator of health and adult

Found: Background Workforce challenges in the social care sector 3.1 The adult social care sector is complex

Found: This is a positive step towards parity across the children and adult social care sector.

Found: English approach utilises a single body - the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - to regulate all health and adult

Found: advisers from the CMO and Chief Pharmaceutical (CPO) teams and CMO, CPO • SG Pharmacy Policy • SG adult

Found: guidance and tools to establish ethical procurement standards and to enable market shaping within the adult

Found: Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2023 to 2024 (revised) and include: In 2023-24 adult