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In the 2016 report Children’s Social Care Reform: A Vision for Change, the Department for Education announced their intention to create a new regulatory organisation for social workers in England that would come to be SWE. [3] Social Work England was established under the Children and Social Work Act 2017. [1]
The following is a list of regulators in the UK. Regulators exercise regulatory or supervisory authority over a variety of endeavours. In addition, local authorities in the UK provide regulatory functions in a number of areas. Professional associations also act to regulate their memberships. The UK is also bound by a number of European and ...
The work of the HCPC and other health professions regulators in the UK (the General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Dental Council, etc.) is overseen by the Professional Standards Authority. On 2 December 2019, the regulation of social workers in England was transferred to a new body, Social Work England. [10]
The Health Act 1999 allowed the UK government to more easily change healthcare regulatory arrangements, through orders of the Privy Council. [4] The Kennedy report into the Bristol heart scandal was published in July 2001 and plans for a body to oversee the regulation of healthcare professionals in the UK quickly followed. [5]
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care providers in England. It was formed from three predecessor organisations: the Healthcare Commission
The Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.. The Act was passed by the Conservative Government in 2017, having been launched in 2016 in the House of Lords by Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for the School System Lord Nash, and guided through the House of Commons by Edward Timpson MP, who was then Minister for Children and Families.
In an effort to reform the 60-year-old legislation regarding social care in England, the Care Act 2014 received royal assent after being introduced on 9 May 2013. [11] The act details the local authorities' duties in relation to assessing the needs and eligibility of people for publicly funded care.
On 9 October 2011, a protest organised by UK Uncut took place on Westminster Bridge. an estimated 2,000 health workers and activists attended the protest. [ 61 ] On 5 March 2012, the campaign group 38 Degrees erected 130 billboards in the centre of London with the aim of persuading David Cameron to abandon the bill.