Health and Social Care Committee

Consultation on terms of reference for inquiry into residential care for older people

RC19 ToR – Wales Audit Office

Dear Llinos

Thank you for sharing the Committee’s draft terms of reference for its inquiry into residential care for older people. I am responding on behalf of the Wales Audit Office.

We do not have any specific comments to make about the draft terms of reference, which appear to be quite comprehensive. However, the Committee should be interested to know that the Wales Audit Office has been undertaking some audit work on the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales’s (CSSIW) response to concerns raised in late 2009 about the effectiveness of its regulation of care homes. Our work has been quite limited in scope and we intend to share our findings with the Public Accounts Committee by the end of the calendar year. The Health and Social Care Committee may care to consider taking forward any or all of the issues raised by this work as part of its inquiry.

We would also be happy to make available to the Committee any other relevant audit intelligence from our ongoing programmes of audit work in the NHS and in local government.

Regards.

Paul Dimblebee Group Director Wales Audit Office

Paul Dimblebee Cyfarwyddwr Grŵp Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru