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Regulating care and the social services workforce
— a consultation paper | | Corporate Author | Community Care Division, Health Department, Scottish Executive |
| Publisher | Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, 1999 |
| Pages | 52 pp |
| Source | Community Care Division, Health Department, Scottish Executive, James Craig Walk, Edinburgh, EH1 3BA. |
| Keywords | Social workers ; Care support workers ; Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Government publications ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | The current system of care regulation has been criticised for its lack of independence, lack of consistency in standards, and lack of integration particularly with regard to residential and nursing care services. More than 100,000 people work in social services in Scotland: about half are employed by local authorities, the remainder in private and voluntary agencies. Currently there is no statutory regulation of the social services workforce, other than the holding of recognised qualifications for social worker posts. The White Paper "Aiming for excellence: modernising social work services in Scotland" (March 1999) set out proposals relating to two new bodies: a Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care; and a Scottish Social Services Council. This consultation (on which comments were invited by 10 March 2000) sought views on: problematic aspects of current regulation; the proposed Commission; staffing issues; how care services should be defined; requirements for registration; ensuring quality of care; enforcement of standards; appeals; complaints procedures; pre-registration and development advice; and types of care to be regulated or excluded. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000410001 B |
| Classmark | QR: QRS: Q3: 6OA: 9A |
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