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Issue 204
Care Leaders Demand Government “Change Course” on Social Care... After Scrapping Training and Upskilling Funding
More than 30 leaders in the care sector have sent a joint open letter to Health Secretary Wes Streeting raising concern with the new government’s decision to scrap funding set aside for training and upskilling social care workers. In a written statement on Tuesday July 30, care minister Stephen Kinnock said the adult social care training and development fund, which was announced in provisional form by the previous Conservative government in April, will not be taken forward due to the need to “manage down overall fiscal pressures in 2024-25”.
Mr Kinnock said: “This Government is being honest about the appalling economic circumstances we inherited and takes seriously its responsibility to help manage down overall fiscal pressures in 2024/25. As a result, we have decided that the Adult Social Care Training and Development Fund proposed by the last Government, decisions around which had been suspended since the announcement of the election, will not be continued.”
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