All providers will be aware that CQC has stopped undertaking routine inspections during the period of the pandemic, limiting on-site inspections to cases of high risk. Instead, their monitoring function has been carried out using the Emergency Support Framework, which…
On 19 June the government published guidance on the steps that employers may need to take following the death of a worker in an adult social care environment from coronavirus. The steps that may need to be taken include: Contacting the person’s…
On 1 November 2019, CQC issued guidance for inspectors and Mental Health Act reviewers on the risk factors involved with closed environments. This followed on from the Panorama program about Whorlton Hall in May 2019 and the earlier issues arising…
CQC has now published its emergency support framework. It will be well known that CQC has suspended its usual inspections during the pandemic. However its statutory duties remain in place and the support framework is intended to provide a mechanism to…
The CQC recently published ‘Promoting sexual safety through empowerment’ (the Report). There was a broad consensus on the key themes and action needed to improve sexual safety, and there was a strong request that national guidance is developed and co-produced to…
The CQC commissioned an independent review from Professor Glynis Murphy (Professor of Clinical Psychology and Disability) in June last year into how abuse exposed by the BBC Panorama programme in May 2019 could have been recognised earlier by the regulator.…
The Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’) has produced guidance (‘Guidance’) for their inspection teams and Mental Health Act reviewers to assist them in identifying ‘closed cultures’ at the earliest opportunity and to take appropriate action to prevent recurrence of the abuse…
In December 2019 guidance was published to clarify arrangements for: Children’s homes which provide healthcare Children’s healthcare settings, if the main function is care and accommodation rather than provision of acute interventions. The guidance is intended to assist inspectors and providers in reaching…
‘Right to be heard’, is the Government’s response to the consultation on proposals for introducing mandatory learning disability and autism training for health and social care staff 1. Consulting on the proposals was a commitment made in the response to the…
The Report of the Inquiry into Health and Social Care and LGBT Communities was published at the end of 2019. Conducted by the Women and Equalities Committee the Inquiry focussed on: discrimination faced by LGBT communities in day to day interactions…
