Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 42625

Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation

Tabled: 31 March 2025

Answered: 7 April 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to introduce statutory regulation for (a) counsellors and (b) psychotherapists to help ensure minimum standards of (i) training, (ii) supervision and (iii) professional conduc

Answer

Karin Smyth

There are no current plans to extend statutory regulation to therapists and counsellors, and no recent assessment has been made of the potential impact of the lack of statutory regulation on patient safety.When considering which professions should be prot...

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