About Us - Welcome from CEO

Welcome to our website. My name is Ginny Hanrahan and I am the CEO of Coru, the Health and Social Care Professionals Council. We hope that you will find the site helpful whether you are a practitioner, who will be seeking registration, an employer, who will be required to employ statutory regulated professionals or a member of the public who will seek the service of these professionals.

Currently the public have a limited recourse should the provision of services by any of these professions not be up to standard.  Coru has been established to change that. The aim of Coru is to set and enforce the standards of education, practice, performance, conduct and ethics for each of the professions and to deal with situations where registrants do not meet these standards. The full list of professions to be regulated is included on the next page of this section.

The Health and Social Care Professions Act became law in November 2005 and the Council were first appointed in March 2007. Staff commenced work in May 2008 and it is our aim to have the first register open in 2010.

Coru is the first regulator to be established with a lay majority with the greater involvement of the public in the governance of statutory regulation. Both our Council and the individual Registration Boards have more representatives from the public than the professions.

We hope that you find the website helpful in answering questions you may have. If there are questions that you wish to have answered and want to find out more information about us please contact Coru.

Our aim is to give the public confidence and comfort and the registrants a recognition of the high standards that they conform to, while dealing with those practitioners who do not reach or attain these standards.