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Following on from last week’s blog about mandatory training, this week I wanted to talk about the “One Drawer Inspection Kit”… One of the best things about Lead to Succeed is the “practical strategies” – all of the modules include activities which always result in one of the managers or team leaders in the room…

Thanks for all the feedback about last week’s post around handling complaints and potential ways you can overcome any possible challenges. This week, I wanted to give some consideration to another topic that often comes up in the Lead to Succeed (L2S) workshops we deliver – Mandatory Training… Leading and Managing the Inspection Process (the…

Hi everyone and welcome to the blog for this week. We were going to cover a topic different to this, however there was a comment on last week’s blog (via LinkedIn) which I thought was important to pick up on before moving on. If you didn’t see it on LinkedIn, this is the comment below…

Following on from last week’s blog about the PIR, this week I want to look at what CQC will actually do whilst they are on site with you; in other words, what is the “Inspection Methodology”? This is taken directly from module 5 of Lead to Succeed, the Skills for Care leadership program that Grey…

Well, if you read their document from November 2017 on how they will monitor, inspect and regulate Adult Social Care services, it would suggest that by now we should all be using a PIC (Provider Information Collection). However, according to the most recent document released by the CQC (click here), it seems that this is…

Ever driven down the High Street or around the local Business Park and seen a banner outside the local care provider with “We are inadequate” in huge writing? Probably not, given that no-one wants to publicise they have work to do, or that their service is not as it should be. But let’s not underestimate…