The Regulation of Care Act is about quality assurance. It is designed to reassure the public about standards of service, especially in two rapidly expanding sectors - care of the elderly and provision for young children. It is designed to introduce national standards and a national mechanism for ensuring compliance.
A national framework for regulation achieves a separation of the standard-setting and inspection functions from the public sector service providers in the form of local authorities and establishes a clear divide between the quality assurance and service provider roles. It also serves to put local authority provision on a more equal basis to that of private and voluntary sector providers. The same standards will presumably apply to all, and everyone will be evaluated by the same agency.
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