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CWS Care Quality Consultancy
Led by a Mental Health Adult Social Care Specialist
With fifteen years expertise in the sector
Former CQC ASC Inspector
We know this sector inside out.
Supported Living – Care Homes – Domiciliary Care
Where are you right now?
Inspection is due and you have no reliable read on how you would score.
Book a mock inspectionA safeguarding referral, a complaint, a whistleblowing disclosure or a serious incident.
Contact us todayNotice has been given, or contact is expected, and the service is not ready.
Book a mock inspectionRequires Improvement or Inadequate, with commissioners now watching.
Get in touchYou want Outstanding, or you want to be certain of holding what you have.
Get in touchOur services
What does CQC already know about you, and what does it look like from their desk?
You receive a written read of your own risk profile as the regulator sees it, and the specific things pulling you toward a visit.
Most services notify late, notify the wrong thing, or notify accurately and damage themselves in the wording.
A notification is a legal document that will be read back to you. We review how yours are written, correct the ones creating exposure, and train your managers to write them properly — complete, timely, defensible.
The documents that sit permanently in CQC’s file on you.
Serious incident. Safeguarding. A disclosure from a member of staff. Police or commissioner involvement.
We run the investigation properly from hour one — evidence, chronology, duty of candour, notifications, and a response that closes it without opening a regulatory, legal or reputational front.
Their lack is the root of all breaches and resource drain
The most common failure I saw as an inspector, and the reason services drain money, burn staff out and firefight the same incident four times, is lack of adequate training in comprehensive assessments, person-centred care planning, and good documenting.
I help managers and teams build trauma (including institutional trauma leading to non-engagement) and neurodiversity-informed:
I support RMs with:
Practical coaching rooted in sector expertise and live service issues — not generic leadership theory.
A realistic inspection of what happens in practice — not a friendly paperwork exercise.
I examine your service through the 2026 CQC lens of:
The review includes leadership interviews, care-records triangulation, safeguarding, medicines, staffing, Mental Capacity Act compliance, people’s experience, staff practice, governance and outcomes.
I also test:
You receive an evidence-based report, regulatory-risk analysis and a prioritised improvement plan.
Requires Improvement, Inadequate, warning notices, urgent conditions, notices of proposal.
Expert audits with comprehensive action plans and root-cause analysis for underperforming services — after a Requires Improvement finding, or after an incident, to demonstrate the learning and improvement CQC requires under Well-led.
Structured turnaround from Requires Improvement to Good, and from Good to Outstanding.
Fees
Fees are scaled to the size of the service. Smaller providers carry the same regulatory risk as large ones on a fraction of the budget, and are priced accordingly.
Resources
Articles on assessment, evidence, notifications and what actually drives a rating in community mental health services.
Coming soonPractical documents for registered managers — assessment frameworks, audit tools and evidence trackers.
Coming soonOr email info@cwscarequalityconsultancy.co.uk