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Written question asked by Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 8 December 2014, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 22 December 2014. It was answered by Earl Howe (Conservative) on Friday, 19 December 2014 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Social Services: Training

Question

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.

Answer

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:

Financial Year

£ million

2012-13

£27.8

2013-14

£31.3

2014-15

£30.7

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.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL3523
Session
2014-15
Subjects
Finance Training Social services
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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