Mental Health Services: Children

(asked on 18th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) introduce legislative proposals and (b) set out a timetable for their introduction to require individuals who wish to work therapeutically with children to register with an independent government-approved agency such as the Professional Authority's Accredited Register programme or Health and Care Professions Council.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 26th April 2019

The Government has no plans to introduce legislative proposals to require unregulated professions who work therapeutically with children to be regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council.

The Government is clear that statutory professional regulation should only be used in cases where the risks to the public cannot be mitigated in other ways, such as through employer oversight or accredited voluntary registration.

Unregulated professions are encouraged to register with an appropriate professional body whose register has been accredited by the Professional Standards Authority. Accreditation provides assurance that practitioners on the register meet set standards and demonstrates that the organisation is committed to protecting the public.

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