The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7447 p418
14 April 2007

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Ofsted now responsible for medicines in children's homes

Responsibility for ensuring that children's medicines needs are met in care homes has been transferred from the Commission for Social Care Inspection to Ofsted.

A spokeswoman for Ofsted told The Journal: “Ofsted, like CSCI prior to April, will ensure that regulated services are compliant with statutory requirements of registration, and will inspect services against national minimum standards, including those which make reference to the administration of medicines.”

She added that service providers remain responsible for their own compliance with regulations, for meeting the national minimum standards and for administering medicines appropriately.