Care Inspectorate
A new regulator for Scotland: Social Care and Social Work
Improvement Scotland
From 1 April 2011 a new public body began operating in Scotland:
Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland. This
body was created by the Public Service Reform (Scotland) Act
2010.
Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland, known
informally as the Care Inspectorate, is an independent organisation
with its own Board responsible for its governance. It is
funded by the registration and continuation fees it charges and by
Scottish Government. It operates independently to scrutinise and
improve care, social work and child protection services for the
benefit of the people who use them.
The Care Inspectorate will work to improve care, social
work and child protection in a number of ways. They will provide
public assurance and protection of vulnerable individuals and act
as a catalyst for improvement:
- ensure scrutiny and improvement activity is informed by a
systematic analysis of risk and targeted where it is needed
most
- provide information on quality of care so that people who use
and choose services and their carers and those responsible for
commissioning services can make informed choices
- inspect against the regulations associated with the new Public
Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, the National Care Standards
and other agreed national benchmarks
- organise scrutiny and improvement activity, including
inspections, around risk; targeting poorly performing services
- make more use of unannounced inspection
- implement national centralised registration and complaints
functions
- develop a workforce which is more skilled at identifying and
analysing risk
- develop new validation processes for self-evaluation
- coordinate joint planning of scrutiny and improvement activity
and multi-disciplinary inspections with HIS and other scrutiny
bodies.
For more information:
Website http://www.careinspectorate.com
Email enquiries@careinspectorate.com
Telephone 0845 600 9527
