It was expected that children's care home workers would be registeredalongside domiciliary workers. But last week care services minister IvanLewis announced that only domiciliary workers would be the next group toregister with the council.
Lewis told the council's annual conference that until the Department ofHealth knew the outcomes of the Comprehensive Spending Review it wouldnot be able to say when the process would begin for residentialchildren's workers. But he said that once the review was finished, theseworkers could be registered in parallel with domiciliary workers. "Oncewe have the review settlement, there's no reason to do domiciliaryworkers before children's workers," he said.
The move to delay the decision because of funding did not come as ashock to Keith Livie, operations manager for children's services forHillcrest Care, who believes registering care home workers could beexpensive because of high staff turnover. He said: "I'm not surprisedit's been deferred."
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