Health written question – answered at on 30 November 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prosecutions under the Care Standards Act 2000 have not resulted in a conviction since 2004.
We are informed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that, since 2004, CQC and its predecessor bodies, the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) and the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, has completed 40 prosecutions under the Care Standards Act 2000. 38 of these prosecutions resulted in a conviction. In the remaining two cases, a conditional discharge was issued.
CQC, as did its predecessors, also has the option to issue cautions as an alternative to prosecution, where this is considered the most appropriate course of action. A number of cautions have been issued over the same period.
It should be noted that these figures relate to prosecutions of adult social care and health care providers regulated by CQC and its predecessors. They also include prosecutions of children's social care providers up until 2007, which were regulated by CSCI until then. They do not include prosecutions which may have been brought by other bodies. This information is not held by the Department.
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