Unions* representing staff at the new Care Quality Commission (CQC), are today (2 April) calling for the Commission to be given the resources to enable it to get on with the massive job resting on its shoulders.
The unions are warning that the CQC, which brings together the Commission for Social Care Inspection, the Healthcare Commission and the Mental Health Act Commission, is inheriting a situation where staffing cuts, office closures and defective IT systems have left staff stretched to breaking point.
The unions are calling on CQC management to reconsider the decision of the outgoing Commissions to issue redundancy notices to 180 business support staff, in preparation for plans to establish a remote processing centre operation in Newcastle.
Helga Pile, UNISON National Officer for Social Services, said: