UK Care Compliance & Governance Hub

The CQC evaluates all health and social care services in England through a single, continuous assessment model structured around five key questions:

Under the SAF, inspectors assign continuous scores (1 to 4) using six distinct evidence categories: people's experience, feedback from staff and leaders, partner feedback, observation of care, processes, and clinical outcomes.

Registered providers must adhere to statutory regulations enforced with warning notices and civil penalties:

• Regulation 12 (Safe Care & Treatment): Assessing clinical risks, preventing avoidable harm, safe medication handling, and maintaining staff clinical competence.
• Regulation 17 (Good Governance): Robust operational audit systems, contemporaneous and secure care records, incident escalation, and clinical oversight.
• Regulation 18 (Staffing): Deploying sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, skilled, and experienced staff, with ongoing regular supervision and appraisal.
• Regulation 19 (Fit & Proper Persons Employed): Complete adherence to Schedule 3 pre-employment vetting before deployment to service users.

Every worker engaged in regulated social care activity must have an airtight, audit-ready compliance file:

• Enhanced DBS with Barred List Checks: Mandatory criminal history clearance; illegal to deploy individuals on the Adults or Children Barred Lists.
• DBS Update Service Monitoring: Continuous verification of candidate certificate status without administrative delays.
• Right to Work (Share Code & IDSP): Digital Home Office verification for eVisa holders and certified IDSP checks for UK/Irish nationals.
• Full Employment History: Chronological resume from school leaving date with written, verified explanations for any employment gaps.
• References: Verification of reasons for leaving past health or social care roles and written character references.

Statutory training expectations for all adult social care staff deployed in England:

• The Care Certificate: 15 fundamental standards covering safeguarding, duty of care, infection prevention, and privacy; required within 12 weeks of induction.
• Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training: Legal requirement under the Health and Care Act 2022 for all health and social care staff on learning disability and autism (Tier 1 & Tier 2).
• Clinical Mandatory Refresher Cycle: Moving & Handling (practical annual), Basic Life Support (annual), Safeguarding Adults Level 2/3 (annual), Fire Safety.

AsanWork supports regulatory variations across all four UK nations: