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The aim of the Department of Health (DH) is to improve the health and wellbeing of people in England. About us explains DH's work, structure and responsibilities.
The Department for Education and Skills was established with the purpose of creating opportunity, releasing potential and achieving excellence for all.
www.cqc.org.uk (CQC) registers, inspects and reports on social care services in England. Our job is to improve social care and stamp out bad pactice.
The General Social Care Council is the workforce regulator and guardian of standards for the social care workforce in England. We were established in October 2001 under the Care Standards Act 2000.
National Care Association (NCA) was formed in 1981 to lobby the government for the benefit of both its members and the people in their care
United Kingdom Homecare Association Ltd (UKHCA) is the professional association of home care providers from the independent, voluntary, not-for-profit and statutory sectors. UKHCA helps organisations that provide social care, which may include nursing services, to people in their own homes, promoting high standards of care and providing representation with national and regional policy-makers and regulators.
Formed in 1968, the RNHA campaigns strongly for high standards in nursing home care. Our members are nursing home owners committed to delivering quality services to their patients.
ARC - is a membership organisation, which supports providers of services to people with a learning disability to promote real change.
The implementation of the Independent Safeguarding Authority scheme, under the terms of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 will introduce the most stringent vetting and barring service yet. The overall aim of the Independent Safeguarding Authority is to help avoid harm, or risk of harm, to children, young people and vulnerable adults. It aims to do this by preventing those who are deemed unsuitable from working or volunteering with children and vulnerable people.
This will be achieved by providing employers and those managing volunteers with a more effective and streamlined vetting service for potential employees, and by barring unsuitable individuals from working, or seeking to work, with children and vulnerable adults at the earliest opportunity.