New types of multi-agency workers are to be piloted in six local authorities.
Announcing the new jobs at the Association of Directors of Social Services’ spring seminar in Liverpool last month, Health minister Jacqui Smith said that specialist skills should be focused in roles that needed them, adding that these new types of positions could receive pay rises in the future.
Positions to be created include those of family support worker and home care worker.
The six pilot areas for 2003-4 are to be announced in the summer. Five more projects will be announced in each of the next two years.
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