The Government provided vital additional funding to the adult social care sector during the pandemic, and we appreciate that the additional covid-19 funding cannot continue indefinitely. However, the Government’s own guidance that care workers should self-isolate if they test positive for covid-19 indicates that the risk to the sector is not over. We do not accept that controlling covid-19 infections is analogous to other types of infection control, since Ministers were unable to name any oth...

The Government provided vital additional funding to the adult social care sector during the pandemic, and we appreciate that the additional covid-19 funding cannot continue indefinitely. However, the Government’s own guidance that care workers should self-isolate if they test positive for covid-19 indicates that the risk to the sector is not over. We do not accept that controlling covid-19 infections is analogous to other types of infection control, since Ministers were unable to name any other sector whose employees the Government is still advising to self-isolate. Given the huge financial pressures on the sector and acute challenges with re Type: recommendation | Number: 2 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The 2021 Spending Review settlement considered a wide range of pressures facing social care. However, we recognise that since then there has been increased short-term pressure on local authorities’ ability to deliver adult social care, resulting from inf