Inspection of home carers urgent: law reform body
January 30, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Professional carers and home helps looking after elderly people and other vulnerable individuals at home must be regulated and subject to inspections, the Government’s independent legal advisers have warned.
The Law Reform Commission is today publishing draft laws it says would bring such staff, whether HSE, voluntary or privately employed, under the watch of HIQA, the state agency that already monitors standards in private and public nursing homes and other residential institutions.
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