Question follow-through · 7491

Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman on the proportion of cases referred to the Ombudsman from the independent care sector.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 7 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 10 Oct 2024
Answer: 28 Oct 2024 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman on the proportion of cases referred to the Ombudsman from the independent care sector.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulations 2014) requires that anyone who has seen or experienced poor-quality care must have a route available to complain to the organisation that provided or paid for the care.To meet this requirement, adult social...

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