SIM 07/2009/03
HSG 220 – Health and safety in care homes provides guidance on all aspects of health and safety. Inspectors should recommend this publication to every care home inspected.
Inspectors should be mindful of the need for social care providers to strike the right balance between enabling adults who use care services to lead independent and dignified lives and the need to avoid and prevent unnecessary harm to them and their carers. The Department of Health produced a guidance document ‘Independence, choice and risk: a guide to best practice in supported decision making’ to help providers meet this challenge.
