New CQC Assessment Regime
Firstly, every Local Authority (LA) is getting £26,730 as a one-off grant from the Department of Health and Social Care to support 'the new burden of engaging with Care Quality Commission review and assessment for the first time'. Under new powers, the CQC will check how LA's meet Care Act duties to assess people's needs and provide adult social care.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it was giving the same grant amount to every LA 'as the Care Quality Commission’s approach to local authority assessments will be the same for all local authorities when they are formally assessed for the first time'.
Secondly, the CQC said this week that it was aiming to go live with new style inspections of providers in mid November, starting with a small number in the south of England. It added that providers had called for more guidance about how the new assessments would work in practice and this would be published in due course. In the meantime, the CQC has published more details about the six evidence categories it will work through during assessments.
About the Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. They make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, caring, well-led and responsive care, and they encourage care services to improve. They monitor, inspect and regulate services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and they publish what they find to help people choose care.
