The Health and Social Care Bill
9 January 2008
Read our written evidence to the Public Bill Committee on the
Health and Social Care Bill.
The Health and Social Care Bill, which will create a new
regulator, the Care Quality Commission, to replace CSCI, the
Healthcare Commission and the Mental Health Act Commission, is
currently progressing through Parliament. This process involves
many stages at which CSCI has been involved in order to ensure that
the new care regulator represents the best interests of people who
use social care in England.
As part of this process, CSCI was invited to submit official
evidence to the Public Bill Committee stage of the Bill. The Public
Bill Committee is made up of a group of MPs who review and, where
necessary, make amendments to the Bill before voting to pass it on
to the next stage of the process.
The evidence that CSCI submitted highlights four key areas for
the Bill Committee to consider in its assessment of the Bill. These
are that the new commission should:
- Retain a strong social care focus
- Build on existing progress
- Take a rights based approach to all its activities
- Retain independence