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the sooner HCA's are regulated the better. Taxi drivers are more tightly regulated than HCA'S. additionally, assistant practitioners, ot assistant, physio assistants etc should all be regulated. As a social worker I get tired of undertaking safeguarding investigations, identifying care assistants who have caused harm, they leave and pitch up at the care home or hospital down the road or they become 'personal assistants' under direct payments, becoming more hidden. no powers to stop them and a referral to ISA will be overturned on appeal by the HCA. a very difficult set of circumstances that regulation will help to address. whilst I'm sceptical of this journalist leading a review, I welcome the direction of travel.