COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION

Early day motion 452, tabled 3 December 2007 by David Anderson (Labour). Signed by 30 members.

That this House expresses concern about the effects of deregulation of care inspection by the current Commission for Social Care Inspection; notes that the Health and Social Care Bill will create a new integrated regulator, the Care Quality Commission; further notes that the effects of deregulation include less frequent inspections, reliance on paper exercises and self-evaluation by care providers, a hands-off approach to complaints, and the loss of 360 inspection and support jobs; believes that these changes hinder inspectors' capacity to talk to service users and detect problems at an early stage and leave vulnerable care home residents at risk and with no system of redress; calls for an immediate moratorium on the job cuts proposed; and urges the Government to review the current care inspection system to determine whether reducing the burden of regulation is appropriate to the needs of vulnerable people in health and social care.

Signatures by party: Labour 22, Liberal Democrat 6, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2.