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Safe and sound?
— checking the suitability of new care staff in regulated social care services | | Corporate Author | Commission for Social Care Inspection - CSCI |
| Journal title | InFocus, no 4, June 2006 |
| Publisher | Commission for Social Care Inspection - CSCI, London, June 2006 |
| Pages | 36 pp (Ref no: CSCI 162) |
| Source | Commission for Social Care Inspection, 33 Greycoat Street, London SW1P 2QF. Enquiry line 0845 015 0120. E-mail: csci@accessplus.co.uk Download: http://www.csci.gov.uk/pdf/safe_sound_tagged.pdf |
| Keywords | Social workers ; Care home staff ; Domiciliary services ; Commercial care ; Recruitment ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | A previous publication, "The state of social care in England 2004-5" (CSCI, 2005), reported on performance of social care services against the National Minimum Standards for recruitment and vetting of care staff. This bulletin looks at the current performance of adult and children's services, including older people's care homes and domiciliary care agencies. Its key finding is that too many regulated social care services are failing to apply consistently, safe vetting procedures and sound recruitment practices, despite an overall improvement since 2002/03. Nearly half (47%) domiciliary care agencies, and two-fifths of older people's care homes (41%) and younger adults' care homes (39%) did not meet this standard. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060615001 B |
| Classmark | QR: QRM: N: PI: WK6: 583 |
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