Health written question – answered at on 11 July 2005.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate (a) her Department and (b) the General Social Care Council has made of the number of (i) domiciliary care workers, (ii) outreach workers, (iii)residential child workers, (iv) social care managers and (v) staff responsible for recruitment and supervision of social care staff who would be covered by future requirements for registration with the General Social Care Council.
There are an estimated 1.4 million social care workers in England, around a quarter of these are people working in domiciliary care.
Detailed information on the number of social care workers is collected by Skills for Care in relation to adultservices and by the Children, Young People and Families Workforce Development Council (CWDC) in relation to children's services.
During 2004, the General Social Care Council (GSCC) carried out a widespread consultation about the order in which the remaining groups of social care staff should be brought into registration. I am considering their report of the outcome of this consultation in the context of the continuing development of our social care policies following the publication of the social care Green Papers, Independence, well-being and choice" and Every Child Matters". I expect to announce my decision shortly.
The GSCC will then work closely with Skills for Care and CWDC in preparing for registration of the new groups in the social care work force in light of information about the numbers in each category.
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