Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

We heard throughout the inquiry and through many discussions over the last few years that there is a huge number of people who have spent much of their life caring, so they have extraordinary caring skills, but do not actually have the qualification they would necessarily get through TAFE et cetera. I am wondering if any work has been done around trying to harness that extraordinary workforce? They are often women who have been caring for parents or maybe for a child or someone with a disability et cetera and they no longer find themselves needing to care for that person. They have some of the most extraordinary care skills. Has there been any consideration in trying to find a mechanism through which they may be able to be harnessed to deal with the current workforce challenges we're facing across the entire care sector? It is a broad question. Have we done any work on harnessing those people?