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Social Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will work with the care sector to establish a (a) National Care Agency to (i) set minimum standards of care and (ii) act as a regulator and (b) Royal College of Careworkers to (A) improve rec

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 6 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 8 Jan 2025
Answer: 16 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will work with the care sector to establish a (a) National Care Agency to (i) set minimum standards of care and (ii) act as a regulator and (b) Royal College of Careworkers to (A) improve rec
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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16 Jan 2025
Answer published
We are launching an independent commission into adult social care as part of delivering a National Care Service and adult social care reform. The Secretary of State has invited representatives of the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, Reform UK and the...

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