Question follow-through · 33619

Care Workers: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support social care workers to use their career experience to support their qualifications as NHS workers.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 25 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 27 Feb 2025
Answer: 3 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026

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Recorded timeline

25 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support social care workers to use their career experience to support their qualifications as NHS workers.
27 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have institutional autonomy to set their own admissions criteria to healthcare profession qualifying courses. Some HEIs accredit prior experiential learning (APEL), including from working in social care, which helps re...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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