Question follow-through · 22347
Care Workers: Pay and Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) the average wages paid to social care sector workers and (b) the current number of vacancies in the sector.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jan 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) the average wages paid to social care sector workers and (b) the current number of vacancies in the sector.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jan 2025
Answer published
Skills for Care reports that most care workers as the entry-level occupation are paid on or just above National Living Wage. Average or mean hourly pay for all workers in the sector was £12.36 in March 2024. Skills for Care also reported that the overall ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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