Clause 16
Health and Social Care Bill
7:15 pm
Kelvin Hopkins (Luton North, Labour)
I shall be brief. I concede from the start that this is a probing amendment and I shall not press it to a Division. It is important, however, to give some kind of guidance to the new commission—the new regulator—and ideally the Bill would include the codes of practice established by the General Social Care Council.
The council was recently established by a measure enacted by the Labour Government, so it is not out of date. I hope that the measure would involve a simple carry-over and that my hon. Friend the Minister will ensure that it happens, whether by inclusion on the face of the Bill or as a code of practice issued by the Commission.