The move from individual pension pots towards a collective fund follows months of campaigning by Unison.
The Health Secretary said: “We will deliver the first-ever legally-binding fair pay agreement for care workers with minimum standards of pay and conditions across every employer, because care workers have been undervalued and underpaid for far too long.
“We will publish a proper workforce plan for social care, proper career pathways, training, development of specialist skills.
“We’ll offer thousands more academy places to help young jobseekers into good jobs in care, and thanks to the campaigning of all the Unison members in this war, we will go further because it is just wrong that the people who work hardest to help others maintain dignity and respect in old age too often get nothing back from retirement themselves.
“So, I can announce today we will introduce the first ever national collective pension scheme for workers in the care sector – fair pay, fair terms and conditions, and now a proper pensions scheme.”