Question follow-through · 1304
Social Services: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to introduce standardised training for staff working in social care.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 30 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to introduce standardised training for staff working in social care.
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jul 2024
Answer published
Enhancing skills for staff working in social care is of critical importance, and we want care to be both personalised and of outstanding quality. We are currently reviewing our approach and will work with the sector and other interested organisations, suc...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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