Lifetime Cap On Care Costs Implementation

Written evidence we received from Mencap, a social care provider supporting over 4,000 people with learning difficulties, indicated that the changes to employer NICs coupled with increases in the National Living Wage, could potentially cost it an additional £18 million a year. Mencap stated that if local authorities did not receive support from central 45 Q 47 46 Letter from MHCLG to Committee, 16 April 2025 47 Q 47 48 Q 47 49 Q 47 50 Q 53 16 government, it would be forced to renegotiate and ...

Written evidence we received from Mencap, a social care provider supporting over 4,000 people with learning difficulties, indicated that the changes to employer NICs coupled with increases in the National Living Wage, could potentially cost it an additional £18 million …

With regard to additional funding for hospital discharge—£600 million in 2023– 24 and £1 billion in 2024–25—the Department told us that delayed discharges had been consistently lower over the last 6 months than the previous year despite an increase in emergency admissions. The Department said that the best measure of whether money had been well spent was “supported discharges” – the number of people being discharged with a package of social care or community care. We heard that supported disc...

With regard to additional funding for hospital discharge—£600 million in 2023– 24 and £1 billion in 2024–25—the Department told us that delayed discharges had been consistently lower over the last 6 months than the previous year despite an increase in …

The Department told us numbers in the social care workforce were going in the right direction and that domiciliary care and care home workforces were expanding.70 However, written evidence sent to us by the National Care Forum highlights that, as of October 2022, there were 165,000 vacancies in the sector according to Skills for Care’s most recent 2021–22 annual report.71 This is an increase of 50% compared to the 110,000 vacancies in 2020–21, and represents a 3% contraction of the social car...

The Department told us numbers in the social care workforce were going in the right direction and that domiciliary care and care home workforces were expanding.70 However, written evidence sent to us by the National Care Forum highlights that, as …

This Committee’s September 2020 report, NHS nursing workforce, concluded that there was a risk that the NHS was focusing on short-term pressures at the expense of the 23 C&AG’s Report, page 30 24 Qq 69, 75 25 NHS0043 NHS Providers submission para 3a 26 NHS0022 British Medical Association submission para 3.7 27 Q103 28 NHS0010 University of Manchester submission para 3a 29 Q74 30 Q102 12 NHS backlogs and waiting times in England necessary long-term strategy when it came to staffing.31 Similar ...

This Committee’s September 2020 report, NHS nursing workforce, concluded that there was a risk that the NHS was focusing on short-term pressures at the expense of the 23 C&AG’s Report, page 30 24 Qq 69, 75 25 NHS0043 NHS Providers …

NHSE&I emphasised the flexibility of the NHS workforce, as evidenced throughout the pandemic. It said that this workforce flexibility now needed to continue as part of transforming the NHS for the future and recovering elective and cancer care.51 In written evidence, the Health Foundation told us that serious staff shortages were compounded by the fact that staff were exhausted by their experience of the past 18 months, with the NHS Staff Survey for 2020 showing that 44% of staff reported fee...

NHSE&I emphasised the flexibility of the NHS workforce, as evidenced throughout the pandemic. It said that this workforce flexibility now needed to continue as part of transforming the NHS for the future and recovering elective and cancer care.51 In written …

Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill — Bill 10 2012-13 (as introduced)