Care Homes: Standards

(asked on 5th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what processes are in place to ensure that care provider CQC ratings are taken into account in advice issued by local authority social services to people seeking a care home.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 11th December 2017

Information and advice is fundamental to enabling people, carers and families to take control of, and make well-informed choices about, their care and support and how they fund it.

The Care Act 2014 placed duties on local authorities to establish and maintain information and advice services relating to care and support for all people in its area.

When appropriate, local authorities direct people to national sources of information, including the quality ratings of providers from the Care Quality Commission.

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