Coalition ‘hiding negligence’ by refusing to release findings of 2021 study into care workforce, union says

A government report into the needs of the care and support workforce was delivered to the employment minister, Stuart Robert, last year but its findings have not been released. Photograph: Natnan Srisuwan/Getty Images

The Coalition has been sitting on a major report into the state of the care workforce in Australia since September last year, and is refusing to make the report public.

The National Skills Commissioner Adam Boyton was tasked by prime minister Scott Morrison in March 2021 to undertake an “in-depth study on the factors affecting the supply and demand of care workers”.