Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what duty is on local authorities to ensure that home care agencies provide mandatory bowel and bladder training for carers.
It is the responsibility of employers to ensure their staff are suitably trained and appropriately supported to undertake the roles for which they are employed.
The Care Quality Commission’s Fundamental Standards include a regulation on staffing which ensures that suitably qualified, competent, skilled persons must be deployed.