Question follow-through · 65688
Care Workers: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of a Royal College of Care Workers to support rural care staff in West Dorset constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of a Royal College of Care Workers to support rural care staff in West Dorset constituency.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Department has no current plans to introduce a Royal College of Care. The Government is committed to transforming adult social care to create a National Care Service and to improving the lives of people drawing on care, unpaid carers, and the social c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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