The majority think the social care workforce should be viewed as one "cohesive and intimately linked entity", and that qualification, not client base, is the "true differentiator" between different types of worker.
The report, The Social Care Workforce: Developing a New National Agenda, canvassed views at the Social Care Workforce Conference in May.
Delegates suggested that education and housing staff could be viewed as peripheral groups of the social care workforce.
They also claimed the regulatory framework regularly prevented service providers from sharing information, and suggested the number of funding sources should be streamlined.
- www.dh.gov.uk.
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