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Day Care Services: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of regulating companies that are funded by local government to provide day activity services to adults with disabilities.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 13 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 17 Jan 2025
Answer: 17 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of regulating companies that are funded by local government to provide day activity services to adults with disabilities.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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17 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. The CQC has powers under the Health and Care Act 2008 to regulate adult social care services to make sure they provide safe, effective, compassionate, and...

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