Caroline Dinenage

The aim is to ensure improve retention in the adult social care sector by ensuring workers are better recognised and valued by their employers.

The consultation has received over 1,500 responses so far, including from healthcare professionals, charities, councils and universities.

Caroline Dineage has hailed this year’s Care Innovation Challenge as a “brilliant opportunity” for bringing new ideas into the sector.

The event, hosted by the Minister of Care, applauded the work of adult social care workers in the UK.

The roundtable kicked off the theme for Carers Week 2019, the UK’s annual drive to raise awareness of caring.

They have an opportunity to feed in their views on what is working and where more needs to be done to transform care and support.

It's the government’s goal to make England the world leader for dementia care by 2020.

She also denied that the government has created a postcode lottery on the quality of care that residents face.