Notifications and Regulatory Reporting Audit – Care Homes
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Questions
0/32 answeredQ1 | Unanswered
Governance: Is there a current notification and reporting procedure identifying provider, Responsible Individual and delegated responsibilities, with cover during absence?
Evidence to check
- • Current reporting procedure with provider, RI and delegated responsibilities
- • Cover arrangements and evidence responsibilities are understood
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Requirements: Does a current reporting checklist identify applicable event categories, recipients, deadlines and submission routes for the home's registered service?
Evidence to check
- • Current applicable reporting checklist with categories, recipients and deadlines
- • Review records checking requirements against current regulations and CIW guidance
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Online access: Can authorised staff access CIW Online through appropriate individual accounts or designated online-assistant arrangements, with access reviewed when roles change?
Evidence to check
- • Authorised individual or designated online-assistant access records
- • Access reviews, role-change actions and confirmation relevant staff can submit
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Current forms: Are staff instructions aligned with current CIW Online categories and prompts, including changes to notification forms and retired categories?
Evidence to check
- • Current staff guidance matched to CIW Online categories and prompts
- • Briefings or procedure updates following changes to forms or retired categories
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Timeliness: Are notifications made without delay unless another timescale applies, with event dates, awareness dates and submission times checked against the relevant requirement?
Evidence to check
- • Event, awareness and submission timestamps for sampled notifications
- • Deadline checks and action on late or delayed reporting
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Decision-making: Are potential notifiable events assessed promptly by a suitably informed person, with reasons for decisions and advice sought where requirements are uncertain?
Evidence to check
- • Recorded notification decisions and reasons for reporting or not reporting
- • Relevant clinical, regulatory or specialist advice where requirements were uncertain
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Immediate protection: Are urgent care, emergency and safeguarding actions taken independently of completing a regulatory notification, with reporting not delaying necessary help?
Evidence to check
- • Incident timelines showing urgent protective and care actions
- • Emergency or safeguarding referrals compared with regulatory reporting activity
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Abuse and misconduct: Are abuse allegations and staff misconduct assessed against applicable notification duties, with required reports made promptly and follow-up information provided?
Evidence to check
- • Allegation or misconduct records and notification assessments
- • Required submissions and linked investigation or outcome updates
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Serious injury: Are serious accidents or injuries assessed against the relevant reporting criteria using appropriate clinical information, rather than assuming every incident or fall has the same notification requirement?
Evidence to check
- • Relevant clinical information and serious-injury notification decisions
- • Submissions or recorded reasons where reporting criteria were not met
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Deaths: Are deaths and the circumstances reported to CIW as required, with other relevant recipients identified and accurate information available?
Evidence to check
- • Death records and required CIW notifications with circumstances
- • Checks of other required recipients and consistency of reported information
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Pressure damage: Are category 3, category 4 and unstageable pressure damage identified through competent assessment and notified under the applicable requirements?
Evidence to check
- • Competent pressure-damage assessments and categorisation records
- • Required notifications linked to category 3, category 4 or unstageable findings
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Infection outbreaks: Are infectious-disease outbreaks notified as required, with relevant public-health reporting and updates coordinated?
Evidence to check
- • Outbreak records and required regulatory or public-health reports
- • Submission confirmations and relevant follow-up updates
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Police involvement: Are incidents reported to the police checked against CIW notification requirements, with the circumstances and resulting action recorded?
Evidence to check
- • Police incident records and CIW notification decisions
- • Required submissions and resulting actions or updates
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Unsafe service disruption: Are events that prevent or could prevent safe service delivery, including serious staffing or infrastructure failures, identified and notified as required?
Evidence to check
- • Records of events threatening safe staffing or service infrastructure
- • Notification decisions, protective action and required submissions
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Deprivation of liberty: Are requests to the supervisory body concerning DoLS notified where required, with the request and relevant follow-up recorded rather than waiting only for an authorisation outcome?
Evidence to check
- • DoLS requests and corresponding required notifications
- • Request dates, submission checks and relevant follow-up records
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Management and RI changes: Are manager appointments and relevant manager or Responsible Individual absences, returns or departures notified by the responsible party within the applicable event-specific timescales?
Evidence to check
- • Manager and RI appointment, absence, return or departure records
- • Responsible-party submissions checked against event-specific timescales
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Provider and premises changes: Are relevant provider, organisational, premises or principal-office changes notified, with registration variations or other approvals obtained separately where needed?
Evidence to check
- • Relevant provider, organisational or premises change records
- • Required notifications and separate variation or approval records where applicable
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Statement of purpose: Are revisions notified within the required advance period, with the submitted version consistent with the planned service and current registration arrangements?
Evidence to check
- • Statement-of-purpose version history and planned effective dates
- • Advance notification evidence and checks against registration arrangements
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Children's requirements: Where children are accommodated, are additional event, admission and discharge reporting duties identified for the relevant authorities using current requirements and forms?
Evidence to check
- • Where applicable, children's reporting requirements and relevant event records
- • Required notifications to CIW, placing authorities or other specified recipients
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Other reporting routes: Are safeguarding, professional regulator, DBS, health-and-safety and other applicable reporting duties assessed separately, without assuming a CIW notification fulfils them?
Evidence to check
- • Separate assessments of safeguarding, professional, DBS or other reporting duties
- • Relevant referrals, submissions and confirmation required recipients were contacted
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Content quality: Do notifications provide a clear factual account, relevant dates, impact, protective action and current status, distinguishing confirmed facts from allegations or unknown information?
Evidence to check
- • Sampled notification content compared with source records
- • Checks of factual accuracy, impact, protective action and identification of uncertainty
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Submission checks: Are the correct service, event category and recipients checked before submission, with suitable oversight that does not delay urgent reporting?
Evidence to check
- • Pre-submission checks of service, category and relevant recipients
- • Oversight records and evidence urgent reporting was not delayed
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Confirmation: Is successful submission verified and recorded with a reference or confirmation, with failed or incomplete submissions followed up promptly?
Evidence to check
- • Submission references or confirmations matched to events
- • Follow-up of rejected, failed or incomplete submissions
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Contingency: Are reporting arrangements available outside normal hours and during system or account-access problems, with prompt advice from CIW and a record of attempted reporting?
Evidence to check
- • Out-of-hours and system-failure reporting arrangements
- • Attempt logs, CIW contact or advice and completion of delayed submissions
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Updates and corrections: Are material new information, errors and outcomes communicated through the appropriate route, with changes linked to the original notification?
Evidence to check
- • Updates or corrections linked to original notification references
- • Records of new information, outcomes and appropriate follow-up communication
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Notification register: Does a secure register link events, decisions, deadlines, recipients, submissions and follow-up, with clear responsibility for outstanding actions?
Evidence to check
- • Secure notification register with decisions, deadlines, submissions and owners
- • Outstanding-action reviews and checks of completeness
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Reconciliation: Are incident, safeguarding, complaints, care and management records compared with submitted notifications to detect omissions, delays or inconsistencies?
Evidence to check
- • Reconciliation of source events and management changes with notifications
- • Actions correcting omissions, delays or inconsistent information
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Image filesCameraQ28 | Unanswered
Annual reporting: Is the annual return supported by accurate service evidence, submitted within current requirements and published using the designated publication copy as required?
Evidence to check
- • Annual return submission confirmation and supporting service evidence
- • Designated publication copy and website publication checked against current requirements
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Image filesCameraQ29 | Unanswered
Regulatory follow-up: Are CIW requests, inspection actions and other regulatory reporting obligations allocated, answered within required timescales and checked for completion?
Evidence to check
- • Regulatory correspondence and allocated reporting or inspection actions
- • Timely responses, supporting evidence and completion checks
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Image filesCameraQ30 | Unanswered
Confidentiality: Is reporting information relevant, accurate and shared securely, with access, retention and disclosure decisions respecting applicable confidentiality and data-protection requirements?
Evidence to check
- • Reporting access, secure sharing and retention arrangements
- • Sampled disclosures and checks of relevance, accuracy and confidentiality
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Image filesCameraQ31 | Unanswered
Staff readiness: Can relevant staff recognise reportable events, escalate uncertainty and use current procedures, with learning from missed or delayed notifications applied?
Evidence to check
- • Role-specific reporting briefings and scenario or knowledge checks
- • Learning and procedure changes following missed or delayed notifications
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Leadership assurance: Do managers and the Responsible Individual review reporting compliance, recurring gaps and outcomes, with improvement actions included in the quality of care review?
Evidence to check
- • Management and Responsible Individual reporting-compliance reviews
- • Quality-of-care findings and verified actions addressing recurring gaps
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