Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many care homes inspected by the Care Quality Commission in 2015-16 did not meet the requirements as set out in Regulation 13 of the Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2014.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care. The CQC has advised that the intention of regulation 13 is to safeguard people who use services from suffering any form of abuse or improper treatment while receiving care and treatment. Improper treatment includes discrimination or unlawful restraint, which includes inappropriate deprivation of liberty under the terms of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

The following table shows the number of care homes that have breached Regulation 13 of the Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014: Safeguarding service users from abuse and improper treatment which came into force on 1 April 2015.

Source: CQC database as at 7 December 2016

Notes:

1. There were 16,649 care homes active at 31 March 2016 (source: CQC database as at 4 April 2016); and there 16,396 currently active care homes as at today’s date (7 December 2016).
2. The data in the table excludes breaches where the following action types were served: Urgent Cancellation, Simple Caution, Fixed Penalty Notice, Prosecution as it is not possible to report on these from the CQC database for the period specified in the request.
3. The majority of care homes are run by adult social care providers. A small number of care homes are run by NHS trusts and where this is the case the data on breaches for the care home will be captured within information about the NHS trust as a whole.
4. The total number of locations that have breached Regulation 13 is lower than the subtotal for each year as some locations were found in breach in both years and the total is a count of unique locations.