AQW 6064/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to outline the progress made on safe staffing legislation; and (ii) the timescale under which it will be introduced in the Assembly.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 18 August 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 18 August 2020
- Answer due by
- 3 September 2020
- Answered
- 2 September 202015 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Safe Staffing legislation is a commitment of the January 2020 Framework Agreement which resolved the Agenda for Change industrial dispute.
While progress has necessarily been paused during the period of the Covid-19 response, meetings of the Safe Staffing Framework Delivery Group met at the end of July and again in August.
I am committed to bringing this forward at the earliest legislative opportunity, however, the scope of the legislation has not yet been determined so it would not be possible to predict a timescale.