The government's response to the
Adult Social Care Committee report
Details
This is the government’s formal response to the House of Lords
Adult Social Care Committee report, A
“gloriously ordinary life”: spotlight on adult social care,
published on 8 December 2022.
The report makes a case for the central importance of the adult
social care sector and the challenge of ensuring it delivers for
everyone who interacts with it, either as someone who draws on,
or provides, care and support, both now and in the future. It
emphasised the importance of adult social care allowing everyone
to live in a place they call home. The committee considered
several important issues, such as reforming adult social care,
improving the workforce and ensuring the personalisation of care.
This response makes clear the government’s commitment to
delivering an ambitious vision for reform, drawing on the plan
set out in Next steps to put People
at the Heart of Care. The response focuses on various aspects
of the government’s social care reforms. This includes the
ambitious plan for workforce to improve the recognition of social
care as a profession. It also includes support for innovative
delivery of care, including support on housing.
The response also covers the financial settlement for adult
social care, including the £7.5 billion in additional funding
over the next 2 years to support adult social care and discharge.
Where appropriate we have grouped recommendations and responded
to these collectively.
This response was initially published on 13 May 2023 on the
Parliament website, but now that it has been laid in Parliament
it is on GOV.UK. Dates and references have been kept as per the
original, though in some cases these are now outdated. In
particular, the referenced Carer’s Leave Bill has now passed into
law.
