Adult Social Care Insights, Governance & Quality Improvement

This week’s Adult Social Care Briefing covers CQC’s State of Care findings, DoLS pressures, new national IPC guidance, April 2027 minimum wage rates, adult social care reform and safeguarding learning on self-neglect.

My website host recently drafted a blog about CQC action plans, and it left me rather frustrated. Developing an effective improvement plan involves considerably more than allocating actions, setting deadlines and updating policies. Here's what providers should be considering when planning, implementing and reviewing improvements.

How safe is safe enough? In Episode 3 of Beyond the Audit, I explore positive risk-taking in adult social care, the assumptions we make about people’s abilities, and how keeping people safe can quietly become stopping them living.

This week's Adult Social Care Briefing explores what the Workforce Strategy means for providers, alongside current CQC assessment priorities and the leadership actions organisations should be considering.

Collecting more information isn't the answer. Discover why connecting information through a single source of truth helps strengthen governance, improve assurance and support better decisions in adult social care.