Annual returns are now closed
This year’s annual returns have now closed.
We would like to thank everyone who submitted their annual return to us by the deadline, Sunday 2 March 2025. The information you have provided will help us plan, inform and carry out our inspections and improvement work.
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eForms issue resolved
The issue with our eForms sytem has now been resoveled. Thank you for your patience.
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Test of change - integrated inspection of care at home services
The Care Inspectorate will undertake an integrated inspection of care at home services in one selected health and social care partnership (HSCP) area in year 2025/26.
This work involves combining and integrating strategic and regulatory approaches to inspection. It will help identify how commissioning processes in the selected HSCP area are supporting positive outcomes for people who experience care and their carers. This reflects the Care Inspectorate’s role in ensuring the quality of care in Scotland meets high standards. Following the inspection we will evaluate the approach, to determine future work.
We will incorporate evidence collected and findings of planned regulatory inspections of relevant care at home services. As part of the test of change all inspected regulated care at home services across Scotland will be asked to contribute by responding to a set of standard questions relating to commissioning arrangements. This approach is now part of the standard methodology of regulated of care at home services.
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eForms system
We are aware that some users are having issues accessing eForms. We are investigating the cause of this and are working hard to resolve this as quickly as possible.
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Update on self-evaluation pilot in adult care services
Thank you to everyone who participated in our self-evaluation test inspections for adult services last year.
Our aim was to:
- gain understanding of where the sector was at
- explore how we could validate services self-evaluation of the core assurances
- assess whether the services own self-evaluation of the core assurances reflected that of the inspectors.
What did we do and who was involved?
Between October 2023 and June 2024, we worked with providers of adult care services to develop their skills around self-evaluation. This included holding three webinars, which were attended by more than 800 people, two face-to-face workshops with over 90 attendees, and a session with managers from a large provider. At these events, we provided practical support and advice to help services understand the process as well as providing information on how we would be testing and validating their self-evaluations.
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