AQW 6064/17-22

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 18/08/2020
Answered On Date: 02/09/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
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.

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.