We have published a new guide for care services undertaking self-evaluation. Self-evaluation is central to continuous improvement. It enables care settings to reflect on what they are doing so they can get to know what they do well and identify what they need to do better.

We want to empower services to evaluate their own performance. This guide helps services across all care settings understand how they can do that. Self-evaluation can be a powerful tool to identify what’s working well and to support improvement. We want all services to undertake self-evaluation.

The quality frameworks we are developing will also help services self-evaluate. We began in 2018 with the framework for care homes for older people and we will have launched all the frameworks by the end of 2020. Our inspectors use them too, to evaluate the quality of care during inspections and improvement planning, so it’s important that all care services are familiar with them.

Read more here.