§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his answer of 23 June to the hon. Member for Wakefield, how he proposes to monitor the implementation of his Department's guidelines as set out in the publication entitled "Home Life".
§ Mrs. CurrieRegistration authorities are responsible for determining their policy on standards in residential care homes having regard to official guidance and to the code of practice "Home Life" and for monitoring compliance with that policy. The Department's Social Services Inspectorate has conducted a national survey of the way registration authorities were discharging their functions. We are currently considering the recommendations in its report "Certain Standards" together with Sir Roy Griffiths' report "Community Care: Agenda for Action" and Lady Wagner's report "Residential Care—A Positive Choice". Copies of all three reports are in the Library.