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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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 …
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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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 …
In May 2019, CQC announced that there was to be a review of its Registering the Right Support guidance “to ensure that its principles are clear and its aims are achieved.” This began with a scoping exercise in May 2019 where CQC sought stakeholder views on a number of issues including: the definitions of ‘campus’ …
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 …
Paul Ridout, Jenny Wilde and Laura Paton discuss the Care Quality Commission’s implementation of its “Registering the Right Support” guidance which has had significant consequences for providers of learning disability services. Our lawyers examine how providers can navigate this difficulty when considering building and registering a learning disability service.
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