People who draw upon care and support have worked with Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) to co-produce a set of 7 value statements for the social care workforce. This work is shared in TLAP’s new report, Values and the workforce: the expectations of people with lived experience.
This work was requested by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and the 7 value statements were embedded in the UK Government’s Care Workforce Pathway for adult social care. They include values such as respect, reliability and honesty.
Jennifer Pearl, a member of TLAP’s National Co-production Advisory Group, says:
“Recruiting and retaining people to work in social care with the right knowledge, skills and behaviours and creating a proper career pathway is a positive step forward. However, unless people working in care hold the right values, those of us who draw on care and support people won’t feel the difference.”
Read the report, Values and the workforce: the expectations of people with lived experience in our Resource Library.
