Care Inspectorate Core Assurances Audit - Care Homes
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0 Yes •0 No •0 N/A •24 Unanswered
Answers Overview
Questions
0/24 answeredQ1 | Unanswered
Is the Care Inspectorate registration certificate displayed, accurate and consistent with the care home service currently being provided?
Evidence to check
- • Displayed registration certificate
- • Current service details and conditions of registration
- • Management check confirming accuracy
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Is the service's insurance current where applicable, and does the statement of aims and objectives accurately describe the service, its conditions of registration and the support people receive?
Evidence to check
- • Current insurance certificate where applicable
- • Statement of aims and objectives
- • Evidence that the service delivered matches its registration
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Is there an effective adult protection policy and procedure, understood by staff, that explains how concerns are recognised, acted on, referred and followed up?
Evidence to check
- • Adult protection policy and procedure
- • Staff access to local referral pathways
- • Recent policy review or practice audit
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Are staff trained and confident to identify and report adult protection concerns, including concerns about colleagues, and are required notifications to the Care Inspectorate made promptly?
Evidence to check
- • Adult protection training and competency records
- • Staff discussion or scenario responses
- • Care Inspectorate notification records where applicable
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Do records show that adult protection referrals, investigations, actions and outcomes are followed through and used to improve people's safety and wellbeing?
Evidence to check
- • Adult protection referral and investigation records
- • Action and outcome tracking
- • Learning shared with staff and reviewed
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Are infection prevention and control arrangements current, embedded in everyday practice and sufficient to protect people, visitors and staff from avoidable infection risks?
Evidence to check
- • Infection prevention audits and action plans
- • Observation of hand hygiene, PPE and cleaning practice
- • Outbreak, incident or learning records where applicable
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Are medicines managed safely through reliable systems for ordering, storage, administration, recording, monitoring, reconciliation and disposal, while supporting people's choices and rights?
Evidence to check
- • Medicines policy, MAR charts and storage checks
- • Competency and medication audit records
- • Medication incidents and actions
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Are the people who live in the home protected by staffing that is sufficient in number, skill mix and deployment to meet their assessed needs, choices and changing circumstances at all times?
Evidence to check
- • Dependency or needs assessment and staffing rationale
- • Rotas, deployment and contingency arrangements
- • Feedback about staff availability and responsiveness
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Are recruitment, registration, references, disclosure checks, induction, training, supervision and competency assessment completed before staff work independently in roles that affect people's care and safety?
Evidence to check
- • Safer recruitment and registration checks
- • Induction, training, supervision and competency records
- • Role restrictions before competency is confirmed
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Do staff know how to raise concerns or whistleblow without fear, and can the service show that concerns are listened to, investigated and responded to appropriately?
Evidence to check
- • Whistleblowing policy and staff feedback
- • Concern, investigation and response records
- • Evidence of a respectful speak-up culture
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Are accidents, incidents, falls, near misses, serious events and significant changes in risk recorded accurately, responded to promptly and notified to external bodies where required?
Evidence to check
- • Accident, incident, fall and near-miss records
- • Immediate safety and escalation actions
- • External notification records where applicable
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Does the service investigate patterns and contributory factors from incidents, concerns and feedback, then implement and review actions that reduce the risk of recurrence?
Evidence to check
- • Incident investigations and trend analysis
- • Root-cause or contributory-factor reviews
- • Completed prevention actions and re-checks
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Is there a current quality assurance and improvement plan with clear priorities, named owners, realistic timescales and evidence that completed actions have improved people's experience or outcomes?
Evidence to check
- • Current quality assurance and improvement plan
- • Named action owners and due dates
- • Impact evidence and review records
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Are complaints, informal concerns and compliments accessible to people and families, recorded appropriately, investigated fairly and used to improve the service?
Evidence to check
- • Complaints, concerns and compliments log
- • Accessible information about how to raise a concern
- • Investigation, response and learning records
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Are people, families, staff and relevant professionals routinely involved in self-evaluation, with their feedback visible in the service's assurance and improvement actions?
Evidence to check
- • People's, family, staff and professional feedback
- • Self-evaluation documentation
- • Improvement actions linked to feedback
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Are personal plans current, person-centred and based on a full assessment of each person's needs, strengths, wishes, communication and desired outcomes?
Evidence to check
- • Sample personal plans and assessments
- • Evidence of person and representative involvement
- • Review dates and outcome goals
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Do personal plans and daily practice reflect consent, capacity, any lawful authority, individual risks and the least-restrictive approach, with people involved as far as possible?
Evidence to check
- • Consent, capacity and legal-authority records
- • Individual risk assessments
- • Reviews of restrictions and least-restrictive options
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Can staff demonstrate that care is delivered in line with each person's personal plan, including health needs, mobility, nutrition, communication, relationships, meaningful activity and preferences?
Evidence to check
- • Observation of everyday care
- • Staff discussion and handover records
- • Evidence that practice matches personal plans
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Are people protected from avoidable harm through safe premises, equipment, fire precautions, maintenance, emergency planning and clear action on identified environmental risks?
Evidence to check
- • Environmental, fire, equipment and maintenance checks
- • Risk assessments and emergency plans
- • Completed repair and safety actions
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Are people supported to maintain meaningful contact with family, friends and their community, with any restriction individually assessed, lawful, proportionate and reviewed?
Evidence to check
- • Meaningful-connection policy and records
- • Individual assessments for any contact restriction
- • Feedback from people and families
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Does the service monitor each person's lived experience through observation, discussion and feedback, including dignity, choice, relationships, safety, comfort and wellbeing?
Evidence to check
- • Lived-experience observations
- • Resident and family feedback
- • Actions improving dignity, choice, comfort or wellbeing
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Do leaders maintain effective oversight of risk, quality, staffing, safeguarding, medicines, infection prevention and improvement, with clear escalation and accountability?
Evidence to check
- • Governance minutes and risk register
- • Quality, staffing, safeguarding and IPC oversight reports
- • Escalation and accountability records
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Image filesCameraQ23 | Unanswered
Can the service show that learning from inspections, professional advice, complaints, incidents and self-evaluation has been shared with staff and sustained in everyday practice?
Evidence to check
- • Inspection and professional-advice action plans
- • Team meeting, handover or learning records
- • Follow-up evidence that changes were embedded
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Image filesCameraQ24 | Unanswered
Overall, can the service demonstrate that its core assurances are effective in keeping people safe while upholding their dignity, rights, independence, wellbeing and individual outcomes?
Evidence to check
- • Completed core-assurance self-evaluation
- • People's outcome and safety evidence
- • Provider assurance and improvement-plan review
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