To think there should be a registration body for carers?

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Had personal experience of a private carer who has been investigated twice by SS after two complaints by different families for safeguarding issues. Issues were not serious enough for SS to take action, but there are massive issues such as a total lack of confidentiality, with the carer gossiping about the people they are caring about.
Carers should have a registration body overseeing them, that they could be struck off from. Because at the moment for a carer working privately for vulnerable people, there is real no oversight.

Do they not need a PVg and to be registered with the SSSC?

SSSC is in Scotland - Scottish Social Services Council

No. They only have to be registered if SS is paying for the care. If privately funded they only need a DBS.
I have heard other horror stories too.

Was there nothing mentioned on the enhanced drb?

Oops dbs

No nothing.
There is no regulation of private carers at all.

I know. It's outrageous. There's plenty of nurses who have been struck off who just switch to care work.

Unfortunately there's such a massive turnover of carers, I suspect it would make recruitment really difficult. What training requirements would you have? And if they're registered, someone has to pay for the admin and the inevitable regulatory processes, hearings etc when a concern is raised about them. And in most models, that's the carers themselves, through fees.