Gordon Brown has announced plans to integrate the work of the Commission for Social Care Inspection with that of the Healthcare Commission.

Stakeholder Response: Commission for Social Care Inspection

Dame Denise Platt, chairman of the Commission for Social Care Inspection, said: "The Commission was set up with a clear purpose - to promote improvement in social care through modernising the way these services are regulated, slimming down regulation so that it is risk-based and fit for purpose, and by putting the consumer at the centre.