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Health and Social Care Bill

Perhaps I may briefly add my own welcome to these amendments. The points I intended to raise have already been raised, so I will not repeat them. However, I took particular note of a point made by the alliance of Scope, RNID, RNIB and RADAR when they said that these amendments will certainly provide encouragement or, indeed, formal duties on the part of care homes to develop a culture of respect for the human rights of their residents. I think that that is most important. As regards the apparent lack of justice mentioned by the noble Baronesses, Lady Masham and Lady Howarth, it does seem anomalous that self-funders should not have human rights protection. However, I wonder whether the Minister could help us in her reply by spelling out what the remedies are for self-funders, given that they do not have recourse to the Human Rights Act. There are remedies if someone who is funding their own care is subject to cruel or otherwise unacceptable treatment.