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Counselling and Psychiatry: Registration

Commons · Question 10096 · Tabled 21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 12 Nov 2024

Question

Asked by Rachael Maskell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to prevent (a) counsellors and (b) psychotherapists from working if they are not on a voluntary register.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 12 Nov 2024

The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) operates a voluntary registers programme, which provides a proportionate means of assurance for unregulated professions, that sits between employer controls and statutory regulation by ...