Home Care Services

Greg Mulholland
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people seeking registration as domiciliary care providers in each region (a) met and (b) did not meet the required standard at each stage in the registration process in each of the last five years.

Phil Hope
We are informed by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) that the information requested on how many applications for registration as domiciliary care agencies were successful at each stage of the process is not collected.

The following table shows the numbers of applications for registration which were approved and refused by CSCI or withdrawn by the applicant(s) in each of the last five years.

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|       |Approved|Refused|Withdrawn|
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|2004-05|739     |5      |45       |
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|2005-06|646     |11     |32       |
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|2006-07|510     |4      |37       |
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|2007-08|526     |6      |29       |
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|2008-09|214     |4      |18       |
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|Total  |2,635   |30     |161      |
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