Information for care homes, home care companies, specialist colleges, extra care housing, Shared Lives schemes and supported living services.
We are introducing a new approach to assessment. Find out how we are doing it in our new assessment framework, and learn how we assess local health and care systems.
Guidance
What we look at when we inspect and monitor your service (key questions and KLOEs), and our guidance on government regulations.
Registration
You must register with us to carry on any of the activities we regulate. You also need to let us know if your registration details change.
Notifications
You need to notify us about certain changes, events and incidents that affect your service or the people who use it.
Inspection and monitoring
Find out what information we'll ask you to send us, what happens when we inspect and what you can expect to happen next.
Best practice
Medicines information for adult social care services
Learning from safety incidents
Our position on the Care Certificate
Trusted Assessors: Supplemental coronavirus (COVID-19) guidance
Equality, diversity and human rights
Relationships and sexuality in adult social care services
Relationships and sexuality in adult social care services: Easy read
Information, records and technology
Digital records in adult social care
Find out if you need consent to use technology as part of someone's care
Standards for handling personal information
Working with CQC
How to get the most out of inspection
How we work with providers at corporate level
Market oversight: our oversight of the adult social care market
Online community for providers and professionals
External links
Resources for adult social care providers (Care Improvement Works)
Government guidance for adult social care services (GOV.UK)
The Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set is a data collection service. It can help with staff training and can also provide access to the Workforce Development Fund.