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CQC compliance guides for adult social care providers
Practical guidance written by AJG Advisory for registered managers, nominated individuals and directors. Each guide explains what CQC looks for and what good evidence looks like in practice.
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CQC inspection checklist
What to have ready across the five key questions before an inspector arrives.
Single assessment framework explained
Key questions, quality statements, evidence categories, scoring and ratings.
CQC quality statements explained
What each statement expects and the evidence that satisfies it in practice.
Well-led evidence guide
Governance, risk, culture and learning evidence that stands up to assessment.
Staff file compliance guide
Every document a recruitment file should hold, and the dates that need watching.
Governance reporting guide
What Regulation 17 expects from your monitoring, reporting and board oversight.
Data protection guide
UK GDPR duties for care providers: lawful bases, retention, rights and breaches.
Safeguarding evidence guide
Showing that concerns are recognised, raised, recorded and learned from.
Medication management audit
The areas a medication audit should cover and the errors most often found.
Safer recruitment audit
Checking staff files against Regulation 19 and Schedule 3.
CQC training matrix
What your training matrix should show and how inspectors use it.
MAR chart audit
Gaps, codes, PRN and handwritten entries on medicines records.
Care plan audit
Testing whether plans describe the person and match daily care.
Risk assessment audit
Current, proportionate risk assessments linked to practice.
Incident and accident register
What to record, and how to turn incidents into learning.
Complaints register
Regulation 16 records from acknowledgement to lessons learned.
CQC notification tracker
Which events to notify CQC about, and making sure none are missed.
Safeguarding tracker
Following each concern from referral to closure.
For registered managers
What you're accountable for and how to take the chasing off your plate.
For nominated individuals
Provider-level oversight of every location.
Free CQC checklists (PDF downloads)
Inspection, evidence, Regulation 17, staff files, quality statements and mock inspection prep.
CQC compliance spreadsheets vs software
Where spreadsheet-based compliance breaks down, and how to replace it without disruption.
CQC audit software vs paper audits
What changes when audits move off paper: scoring, actions, evidence and oversight.
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