With or without reform, the quality, reliability and effectiveness of our adult social care system depends on a workforce that feels valued, supported and encouraged to be the best.
Deborah Sturdy, Chief Nurse for Adult Social Care, explains why the reform plans are about the people delivering services as well as those receiving them. |
Engaging the sector to create a vision |
[Image created by freepik.com] The desire to reform, rebuild and strengthen social care has been a longstanding ambition of successive governments and, while these objectives may be simply put, achieving them has often been anything but. The White Paper, 'People at the heart of care', seeks to overcome these challenges.
Michelle Dyson, Director General for Social Care at the Department of Health and Social Care, reflects upon the wide sector engagement, involving hundreds of diverse organisations and individuals with lived experience, which helped develop this landmark document. |