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CQC’s new Registering the Right Support Guidance published

CQC’s new Registering the Right Support Guidance has been published today called “Right support, right care, right culture”. It outlines three key factors that #CQC expects providers to consider if they want to care for autistic people and/or people with a learning disability: The model of care and setting should maximise people’s choice, control and …

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Report recommends significant shake up to CQC inspections and policies on registration of services for people with learning disabilities and/or autism

The CQC yesterday published the Report it commissioned in summer 2019, in response to the Whorlton Hall scandal. Professor Glynis Murphy’s report makes very interesting reading, but disappointingly is it a little lack-lustre in identifying where the CQC might have done things better. The Report does accept “in hindsight” that things could have been done …

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CQC’s update to Registering the right support guidance: more work to be done

As we have recently reported, the CQC are engaged in a project of reviewing and updating their guidance for providers of health and care services to people with learning disabilities and autism. The previous guidance, entitled Registering the Right Support (RTRS) was issued by the CQC under its statutory powers to issue formal guidance to …

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How is the CQC compounding the factors which have led to the Government facing legal action over failing people with learning disabilities and autism?

The Government is now facing legal action over its repeated failure to move people with learning disabilities and autism into appropriate accommodation. Yesterday, the Equality and Human Rights Commission issued a pre-action letter to the Secretary of State for Health arguing that the DHSC has breached the ECHR for failing to meet the targets set …

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CQC consults on draft new guidance for regulating services for autistic people and people with a learning disability

The CQC are currently consulting on proposed new guidance for Providers of services to autistic people and people with a learning disability. They have published the draft text of the new guidance, plus a set of case studies, and are seeking views from the sector before these are finalised. The CQC proposes to issue this …

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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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HSJ – February 2019 – Not Registering the Right Support to Transform Care

As the clock ticks down towards the end of the Transforming Care Programme in March 2019, there is widespread concern the Programme has been unsuccessful in realising the ambitions set out in the Building the Right Support strategy. These ambitions, rooted in the wake of Winterbourne View and similar scandals, were to develop more community …

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CQC ask providers to comment on their registration guidance

The CQC have asked providers for feedback on their experiences of using their guidance: The Scope of Registration. The guidance was issued ‘to make it clearer for providers who should register with CQC and for which regulated activities’. A link to the guidance can be found here The Scope of Registration Providers can complete a …

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