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Nursing agency licences
Licensing of nursing agencies is carried out by The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), the single, independent inspectorate for all social care services in England.
The remit of CSCI is greater than anything seen before in social care. It works on a local level, at a national level and across all sectors.
In each local council area CSCI:
- registers the private and voluntary care services that are required to meet national standards
- inspects, assesses and reviews all care services in that area. This includes private and voluntary care services and local council social services departments
- inspects boarding schools, residential special schools and further education colleges with residential students aged under 18
- publishes an inspection report detailing its findings after each inspection
- provides the local council with details of the number and quality of private and voluntary care services in their local area
- Deals with complaints about care service providers
- From 2005 CSCI will review complaints about council social services departments
For more information visit the CSCI website or contact the CSCI.
07 October 2008
