Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 42626

Counselling: Regulation

Tabled: 31 March 2025

Answered: 7 April 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent people without accreditation from offering paid counselling services.

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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