Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to require the Care Quality Commission to take further steps to prevent the (a) physical and (b) psychological abuse of people in the health and care system.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is improving how services are regulated to identify where the culture of a service is likely to lead to such abuse.

The CQC is reviewing its work on ‘Out of Sight, Who Cares?’ which looked at the use of restraint, seclusion and segregation in care services for people with a mental health condition and learning disabilities and implementing this learning across other service types.