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Social Services: Regulation

Volume 505: debated on Wednesday 3 February 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) improvement plans, (b) warning letters, (c) statutory requirement notices, (d) changes to conditions of registration and (e) cancellations of registration were issued by the Commission for Social Care Inspection in relation to each category of care in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. (313748)

The information has been provided by the Care Quality Commission.

The information is not available in the format requested.

The Commission is unable to provide the requested information relating to improvement plans or warning letters. These are not specifically recorded in its central database.

The Commission has advised that it is unable to provide statutory requirement notices. The following table shows the numbers of statutory enforcement notices issued to adult social care services each year.

Number of statutory enforcement notices issued to adult social care services in each financial year

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-081

Home care agency

1

6

39

24

Nurses agency

1

1

8

7

Nursing home

86

136

142

86

Residential care home

216

221

359

223

Total

304

364

548

340

1 The Commission has figures for statutory enforcement notices up to 31 October 2007 only for the year 2007-08. After that point the Commission stopped collecting this information centrally, and although the information is collected locally it is not broken down into the categories shown.

The Commission has advised that it does not hold data on changes to conditions of registration.

The Commission has provided the following data on cancellations, which are broken down into non-urgent and urgent cancellations.

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

2007-08

2008-09

Non-urgent cancellations of registration of adult social care services

Home care agency

0

7

14

20

9

Nurses agency

8

6

10

16

6

Nursing home

8

7

6

7

8

Residential care home

16

26

27

23

23

Total

32

46

57

66

46

Urgent cancellations of registration of adult social care services

Residential care home

5

0

3

9

3

Nursing home

0

1

0

0

3

Home care agency

0

1

0

0

1

Total

5

2

3

9

7