Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to require (a) DBS checks and (b) other robust scrutiny measures for private carers.

There are currently no Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check or other pre-employment check requirements for private carers. Individual employers can choose to carry out recruitment checks, such as DBS, on potential private carers before offering a contract. We have no plans to bring forward requirements or regulations for private carers.