SEARCH - Standards for Employment Agencies in Regulated Care and Health Services (interim edition 2010)

SEARCH is guidance for those managing employment businesses placing staff into care settings and for care providers making use of agency staff.   Paperback: 12 pages Publisher: Skills for Care, Leeds, 2010 Language: English Product Dimensions: A4 portrait Price: £5.00 including P&P

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SEARCH (Standards for Employment Agencies in Registered Care and Health services) is guidance for those managing employment businesses placing staff into care settings, and for care providers making use of agency staff. Its 2005 edition detailed the relationship between the then DTI requirements on agencies and the regulation of the care sector. That edition is now out of date, and Skills for Care is working on how to replace it. In the meantime, however, section 5 of SEARCH continues to give valid guidance for what agencies and care providers using agency staff should do. As an interim measure, therefore, section 5 alone is available as a reduced-price publication.

In addition to SEARCH, please note that 2010 legal regulations about agency workers came into effect on 1 October 2011. For information please see the Dep't for Business, Innovation and Skills (www.bis.gov.uk/policies/employment-matters/strategies/awd) and the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (www.rec.uk.com/regions-sectors/sectors/nursing_social_care/join).

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