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Personal Care at Home Bill

I am sure the House is grateful to the Secretary of State for taking so many interventions with a view to understanding not only the purpose of the Bill, but how it is intended to work. Although it is a short Bill, considerable complications arise from it. The debate on the principles of the Bill takes place in the context of the Government's Green Paper and the reform of social care and support. There are two topics that hon. Members across the House would not want to leave out of account in considering how we should reform care and support for the future. First, we must continuously look beyond organisation and funding issues to understand the quality of the service being provided to people at home or in residential care homes. The Care Quality Commission report a fortnight ago on social care made it clear that a considerable proportion—about one in four—of care providers are not yet meeting the good or excellent standards that we would expect for ourselves or our relatives.