Social Services: Older People
(asked on 6th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many elderly people, in each of the last three years for which data is available, have received care which falls below the national minimum standard for social care set by his Department.
The information requested is not available.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. All providers of regulated activities have to register with the CQC and follow a set of fundamental standards of safety and quality below which care should never fall.
The fundamental standards describe the basic requirements that providers should always meet, and outline the outcomes that services users should always expect.
The CQC assesses providers against the fundamental standards of safety and quality. The CQC has a wide range of enforcement powers that it can use if the provider does not meet them.
The ratings published by the CQC for the period up to 6 March 2017 for community based adult social care services, hospice services and residential social care services are set out in the table below:
Rating | Number of locations | % |
Outstanding | 312 | 1.5% |
Good | 15,905 | 76.4% |
Requires improvement | 4,235 | 20.3% |
Inadequate | 357 | 1.7% |
Total | 20,809 |
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The CQC update these figures monthly. Please note that for the adult social care sector the CQC rate locations rather than providers.