Social work and regulation

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Social work and regulation

• A shared space
• John Brady, Anglia Ruskin University, 2008

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Major Players
Commission for Social Care Inspection (SCRC,
SWIA, RQIA, CSSIW)
Healthcare Commission (SCRC, RQIA, QIS, HIW))
Quality Care Commission in England from 2009
Mental Health Act Commission, Mental Health Act
Commission Scotland, Mental Health Review Tribunal
Audit Commission, Audit Scotland
Ofsted Regulation of childrens care
Office of Fair Trading
Government Departments Department of
Health Department for Children, Schools and
Families Department for Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform
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And others

• Health profession regulation
• Health Professions Council (OTs etc.
• RPSGB pharmacists
• Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence

Monitor regulates foundation trusts
Housing Corporation, Communities Scotland
General Social Care Council, CCW, SSSC, NISCC
Environmental Health (FSA) Health and Safety (HSE)
Financial Services Authority
QCA, SQA
Charity Commission, OSCR,
QAA, QAA Scotland
Health Protection Agency
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And others
Overview and Scrutiny Committees
Local Involvement Network
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Local Authority
Local Strategic Partnership Health and Wellbeing
Partnership
Social care commissioners
East of England Strategic Health Authority
Social work
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Regulation never ending change

• NCSC lasted three weeks
• Commission for Healthcare Inspection 2 years
• SSI became CSCI (finishes 2009)
• Care Quality Commission in 2009
• Review of professional regulation
• Local Involvement Networks
• Situation very different in NI, Wales and
  Scotland

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The regulatory role

• Complex, fragmented and ephemeral
• What do they do?
• Difficult to pin down
• What is ideology and/or culture? Is there an
  understanding of the role?
• Do they have a leadership role?

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Regulatory role

• Less centralised or more centralised
• Less accessible or more accessible?
• Networked governance or marketised voices?
• Accountable to users or to politicians?

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thoughts

• Where is regulation on the social work education
  and research map? Should it be there - why?
• How do the regulatory institutions link to social
  work what contact do they make?