CQC compliance for adult social care providers

Be ready before you're asked.

Registration, consultancy, training and policies for care providers in England, and a Digital Compliance Hub that turns every audit you run into the evidence you would hand an inspector.

  • Built by a registered manager
  • Every price is on the page
  • Independent of the CQC
Demonstration compliance dashboard showing audits due, audits overdue, audits in progress, high or critical findings, the compliance score trend from April to September and open findings by risk
Demonstration dashboard. The figures shown are illustrative, not live client data.
  • 23Audit modules
  • 1,106Audit questions
  • 5CQC key questions
  • 7Service types covered

What we do

Everything a regulated service needs, in the order you need it.

Start with registration, get expert support when judgement matters, develop your people, build the systems, buy the resources, and manage it all continuously in one place.

Registration · Start

Starting a care business and CQC registration

Service model, regulated activity planning, provider and registered manager applications, Statement of Purpose, evidence packs and interview preparation. You complete and submit; we prepare and check.

Start here
Consultancy · Expert support

Mock inspections, audits and governance support

Mock inspections, compliance audits, CQC assessment readiness, governance and quality assurance, improvement planning and support for registered managers. Scoped and quoted in writing before work begins.

Consultancy services
Training · Develop people

Training Academy

Statutory and mandatory, Care Certificate, clinical and specialist, leadership and compliance, with the competence assessments that go with them. Group training from £295 live online, £495 for a half day and £795 for a full day in person; the final price is confirmed in writing.

Training Academy
Policies · Build systems

Policies, procedures and forms

A policy library organised by topic, from safeguarding and medicines to governance and business continuity, with the forms, logs and templates that make each policy and procedure work.

Policy Library
Shop · Buy resources

Resources and packs

Editable packs from £49 to £797, bought one-off: email libraries, audit packs, evidence packs and master forms by service type, need and resource type, released to your account after payment.

Browse the shop
Hub · Manage continuously

Digital Compliance Hub

Run audits, attach evidence to the finding that needed it, give every action an owner and a date, and draw governance reports from real audit data. From £59 a month.

Explore the Hub

Who we help

Every service type, with its own policies and its own parallel services.

The requirements, the document set and the risks differ by regulated service type. So each one gets its own policy set, audit modules, mock inspection framework, registration support, training and Hub modules.

Domiciliary Care

Personal care in people’s own homes: call reliability, lone working and medicines in an uncontrolled environment.

Care Homes

Residential and nursing: premises, overnight staffing, medicines governance and the audit cycle that proves it month after month.

Supported Living

Housing and care kept separate: capacity, consent and Court of Protection authorisations do the heavy lifting.

Extra Care Housing

Care in self-contained housing with staff on site: tenancy and care boundaries, response times and night cover.

Shared Lives

Care in an approved carer’s own home: carer approval, matching, review and safeguarding in a family setting.

Specialist Colleges

Personal care for students with complex needs: the education and care interface, consent and transitions.

Residential Substance Misuse

Detoxification and rehabilitation settings: medicines, clinical oversight, unplanned exits and safeguarding.

Compliance by service type

A registered manager and colleagues reviewing documents around a table with a consultant
Working with providers across England, on site and remotely. Open 7 days a week.

Consultancy

Software when the workflow repeats. A person when judgement matters.

Expert human support for your service, delivered by people who have run a regulated one. Engagements are scoped and priced individually, and we say when you do not need us.

Flagship service

Mock inspection

A full CQC-style assessment: evidence review, manager interview, staff discussions, care documentation and governance review, with observation where appropriate. You receive a Mock Inspection Report with risk-rated findings, a RAG-rated action plan and a follow-up review.

About mock inspections

How the Hub works

Four steps, and no double handling.

Each one produces the input to the next, so doing the work is building the record. Nothing gets written up twice.

  1. STEP 01

    Pick your service

    Care home, home care or supported living. You get the modules scoped to that service type, not a generic checklist bent to fit.

  2. STEP 02

    Run the audit

    Work through the questions on any device, recording what you found rather than only whether you passed.

  3. STEP 03

    Actions get owners

    Every finding becomes an action with a named person and a date. A finding without both is not a finding.

  4. STEP 04

    The record assembles

    Evidence sits against the finding that needed it. Your governance report is drawn from real audits, not typed up at month end.

The Digital Compliance Hub

The audit is the point. The paperwork is a by-product.

Most compliance software is a document store with a search box. The Hub is built the other way round: you run an audit, and the evidence, the findings, the actions and the governance report come out of it, already linked, already dated, already attributable.

Which means that when someone asks how you know your medicines handling is safe, the answer is not a policy. It is the last three audits, who did them, what they found, and what changed as a result.

Medication audit — Oakvale House Medicines management · monthly
Example
84%
Evidenced 19 of 22 items, last reviewed 2 Sept
  1. 01
    Audit completedMedicines management · monthly
  2. 02
    Two actions raisedOwner and due date set on each
  3. 03
    Evidence attachedFiled against the finding, not a folder
An illustration of one audit cycle. Doing the work is what builds the record. There is no separate write-up afterwards.

What's inside

Audit centre

23 published modules and 1,106 questions across the five key questions, scoped to your service type.

Evidence library

Files attached to the finding that needed them, not to a folder.

Action tracker

Every finding gets an owner and a date, or it is not a finding.

Governance reports

What changed this month, drawn from real audit data.

Policy register

Version, owner, approval and review date for every policy you hold.

Incidents & complaints

Logged, tracked, and visible in the same place as the audits.

Staff compliance

Training and competence by person, with what is due next.

Multi-site oversight

One view across up to three homes or services on the £149 plan.

How to buy

Four steps, and you can stop at any of them.

Most providers start with something free, buy one thing that solves this month's problem, and only subscribe when keeping it current becomes the problem. That is the honest order, so it is the order we sell in.

Start here
Free

Checklists and guides

The registration document checklist, the manager's monthly checklist, the safeguarding quick guide. Downloadable, no obligation, and enough on their own to tell you where you stand.

  • No purchase, no call
  • Email only if you want updates
  • Written for one service type at a time
Get the free checklists
One-off
£299

New provider pack

For anyone registering a service. A 27-question registration readiness audit, a Statement of Purpose template built around what CQC actually asks for, the core policy set, and a 30-minute start-up call with us.

  • 27-question readiness audit
  • Statement of Purpose template
  • Core policy starter set
  • 30-minute call, within one working day
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Launch package
£1,799one fixed price

CQC Registration Launch Package

Application, Statement of Purpose, supporting-document consistency, interview preparation and a five-page starter website, brought together so every part tells the same provider story. You complete and submit the application yourself, because the declarations are yours to make.

  • Provider and Registered Manager application support
  • Statement of Purpose, business plan and document consistency review
  • Provider and Registered Manager interview preparation
  • Five-page care-provider starter website with legal pages
  • Pay in full, or in three stages of £700, £700 and £599.99
View the package

Fixed prices in pounds sterling, charged by card. No VAT is added, because Haverton Care Limited is not VAT registered. Move up or down a step whenever you want; nothing here locks you into a year. Consultancy and training are quoted in writing before work begins. All pricing in one place

Five key questions

Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led.

The five key questions are the structure behind everything here: the audit modules, the policy library, the training and the consultancy. They keep evidence practical.

SSafe

Abuse, medicines, infection control, staffing and risk. What keeps people safe.

EEffective

Assessment, consent, nutrition, training and outcomes. What improves lives.

CCaring

Dignity, privacy, choice and independence. How people are treated.

RResponsive

Person-centred planning, complaints and end of life. How the service responds.

WWell-led

Governance, culture, learning and oversight. How leaders know it is working.

Why us

“A policy is not evidence that anything happens. I've sat on the other side of an assessment. What gets asked is who does it, where it's recorded, how it escalates, and who checks.”

What that changes about what you get

  • Policies written to be implemented. Every one names the role responsible, where the action is recorded, and the audit that tests it, because that is the question that actually gets asked.
  • Training that admits its limits. A certificate is not competence. For medicines, CQC expects a formal competence assessment carried out by someone competent themselves. We say so, and we offer the assessment as well as the course.
  • Nothing dressed up. We do not claim CQC approval, because CQC accredits nobody. We do not guarantee registration, because nobody can.
  • Written for England, dated on the page. Every document carries the date it was reviewed and the guidance it was written against, so you can see for yourself whether it is current.

Questions

The things managers ask first.

Do I have to switch my care records system?

No. This sits alongside whatever you already use - Nourish, PASS, Birdie, Access, Person Centred Software, or paper. It adds the compliance and evidence layer without touching your care records, so there is no migration and nothing to rip out.

Does this make my service compliant?

No, and anyone telling you otherwise is not being straight with you. No tool can make a service safe or well-led. What this does is help you do the work properly and prove that you did. The judgement, and the care, stay yours.

What is the difference between a mock inspection and CQC assessment readiness?

A mock inspection is a full CQC-style assessment of the service, with risk-rated findings and a RAG-rated action plan. Assessment readiness is a shorter review for a provider who expects to be assessed soon and wants to know where the critical gaps are in leadership, evidence, governance, policies, audits, staff knowledge, notifications, complaints, safeguarding, incidents and training. Neither promises an outcome; both tell you what to fix first.

Will the audit content stay current?

Yes, and we will be specific about what that means. The five key questions are unchanged and are staying unchanged. CQC's assessment methodology around them is being revised, so we track it and update the modules when it lands. Every module shows the date it was last reviewed so you can check rather than take our word for it.

Can you complete my CQC application for me?

No. You must complete and submit your own application, and the declarations in it are yours to make. We help you prepare and check the evidence behind it, review what you have written, and tell you where it is inconsistent or incomplete before you submit.

Is it only for care homes?

No. Home care agencies, care and nursing homes and supported living services each get modules and documents written for that service type, because the risks and the required evidence genuinely differ.

Is my evidence secure?

Your files are held in private storage that only your organisation's users can reach, and access is tied to the person's role. Nothing is shared with anyone outside your organisation, and you decide what to show and when.

Is VAT added to the prices shown?

No. Haverton Care Limited is not currently registered for VAT, so no VAT is added to any price on this page. If that position changes, future quotations and invoices may change accordingly.

Insights

Answers to the questions providers actually ask.

All insights
Governance

Turning audit findings into actions that close

Why most action plans stall at the second column, and the three fields that stop it happening.

Read it
Registration

What goes in a CQC registration evidence pack

The documents everyone sends, the extra ones home care agencies must send, and the ones to have ready.

Read it
Assessment

Inspection readiness and the five key questions

The five questions have not changed and are not changing. What to have ready under each one.

Read it

Ready when you are

Walk into your next assessment with the record already built.

£59 a month for one service, cancel whenever you like. Or tell us your service type, stage and immediate pressure, and we will explain what support is realistic and what owner decisions are still needed.

Engagements are scoped and quoted in writing. Haverton Care Hub supports and strengthens services, but never guarantees CQC registration, inspection outcomes, ratings or compliance. Haverton Care Hub is an independent consultancy and software provider, not endorsed by, affiliated with or acting on behalf of the Care Quality Commission.