Domiciliary Care

HC Deb 24 February 2004 vol 418 c342W

19. Sandra Gidley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on domiciliary care. [155736]

Dr. Ladyman

The Domiciliary Care Agencies Regulations 2002 and National Minimum Standards for Domiciliary Care came into force on 1 April 2003. People using domiciliary care services are protected for the first time by a regulatory framework.

Progress on the target to increase by March 2006 the number of those supported to live intensively at home to 30 per cent. of all those being supported at home or in residential care, is encouraging. The percentage has risen by nearly two points from 27.2 per cent. to 29 per cent. in 2002–03.