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August 2007 |
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NCA’s Initial Response to the Houses
of Parliament Committee on Human Rights Report |
NCA has today confirmed its commitment to the eradication of
abuse within the social care sector. This confirmation
followed the publication of the Joint Committee on Human
Rights report.
NCA has gone on to stress that the Human Rights legislation
is intended to protect people from the State (whether
Government or other statutory agency).
In NCA’s opinion it would be quite inappropriate to suggest
that every private care home should be designated a public
authority within the Human Rights legislation.
NCA’s Chief Executive Sheila Scott OBE said today: “Care
homes are regulated by the Care Standards Act. This Act and
its associated regulations gives robust powers to the
regulators and inspectors of social care to protect those
frail and vulnerable people in receipt of social care.
It is NCA’s opinion that the Commission for Social Care
Inspection and the sector itself continues to drive forward
the modernising agenda within social care and an important
element of that agenda is the awareness raising, training
and exposing of abuse to ensure that any one who perpetrates
abuse on older people can never again work in the sector.
NCA believes that there would no benefit in designating
small private care homes as public authorities. A more
appropriate way forward NCA believes would be to ensure that
all possible support is given to providers of care,
purchasers of care and the regulators of care to ensure that
older people have equal access to all aspects of care that
are freely available to younger people.”
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