§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on his response to the recent Care and Counsel report on privacy in private and voluntary residential homes, a copy of which he has been sent.
§ Mr. DorrellOur community care proposals stress that frail and vulnerable people are entitled to a good quality of residential care and nursing home care. This includes the right to privacy and dignity. We aim to help ensure that this is achieved by the introduction in six weeks' time of inspection units which will monitor standards in both public and independent sector residential care homes, by the introduction of a new complaints system, and by the provision of a 25 per cent. increase in the training support grant for 1991–92. Community care purchaser contracts will further reinforce the requirement that good quality services are provided.