Maddi Gaunt

CQC identifies a concerning “issue” with information gathered during inspections

The Care Quality Commission (“CQC”) have put notices on a number of provider profile pages on their website in recent days confirming that they have “removed” inspection reports. Their stated reasons are: “We found an issue with some of the information gathered by an individual who supported our inspection.” This mysterious “issue” seems to have …

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Ofsted announces research plans for the coming 2 years

In a recent announcement, Daniel Muijs, Ofsted’s Deputy Director of Research and Evaluation, has summarised Ofsted’s upcoming plans for research into the children’s care sector. In the announcement, Mr Muijs says “As a responsible organisation, we also need to know whether our frameworks and methodologies are being implemented as intended and are having the outcomes …

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New guidance published registration of children’s care services

The government published new guidelines yesterday intended to clarify the registration arrangements for service providers who offer services to children which may be caught by either Ofsted or CQC registration requirements, or both. The guidance applies to both inspectors at each regulator and providers of both CQC regulated services and those children’s services which are …

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Ofsted publishes Children’s social care statistics

Ofsted published a release of their periodical review of inspection judgments of children’s homes between 1 April 2019 and 31 August 2019 at the end of November 2019. Ofsted regulates children’s homes (which includes children’s care homes, secure children’s homes and residential special schools registered as children’s homes) and inspects them under a “social common …

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