Your rostering and care-planning tool runs the daily care. CareGuard sits alongside it and does the other half: the CQC evidence, the mandatory-training pathway and policy pack inspectors expect, and a public Trust Mark that shows families your registration, rating and training posture at a glance. Built for the small, independent providers — care homes and domiciliary — carrying the full CQC weight without a compliance officer.
CQC now inspects every adult-social-care provider through its single assessment framework — a set of "quality statements" and evidence categories that replaced the old key-lines-of-enquiry. The duties are concrete and documentable, the enforcement is existential, and the rating is public — so the commercial stakes match the regulatory ones. For a small provider with no dedicated compliance lead, "show me your evidence" is the part that hurts.
Inspections are now built around "we statements" and the evidence behind them — safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led. The anxiety for small providers is concrete: knowing which evidence is expected, and having it dated, signed and retrievable on the day.
Safeguarding, safe care and treatment, fit-and-proper staff, good governance and duty of candour aren't optional — they're the fundamental standards every registered provider must meet and evidence, with the registered manager personally accountable.
CQC can impose conditions, suspend or cancel a registration, or prosecute where people are harmed — and the rating is published for every family to read. A poor inspection is both a legal and a reputational event.
The same platform that scans, generates and trains across the Friam family — set up for the CQC evidence, the mandatory training and the family-trust signal your rostering and care-planning tools don't own.
The deep training set inspectors ask for — the Care Certificate, safeguarding adults (Care Act 2014 s.42), the Mental Capacity Act & DoLS, moving & handling, infection prevention & control, medication, and the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on learning disability and autism — as short, quiz-checked modules with certificates, team progress and renewal reminders.
Your safeguarding, Mental Capacity Act, medication, infection-prevention-and-control, complaints and fire policies, generated from your service's profile to the fundamental standards, e-signed by the registered manager with a full audit trail, and updated when guidance moves.
Care is the most zero-hours-heavy sector, so the duties around staff bite hardest: fire safety, the Worker Protection Act 2024 harassment-prevention duty, the Employment Rights Act 2025 guaranteed-hours reforms, and GDPR/ICO for the sensitive personal data you hold — tracked alongside your CQC evidence.
A rolling reference-period tracker that flags which care and support workers are now owed a guaranteed-hours offer under the Employment Rights Act 2025 — the reform that lands squarely on a workforce built on variable and zero-hours shifts.
A public verification page and embeddable badge families can click — showing your CQC registration and latest rating, your safeguarding-policy attestation and your team's training posture. The reassurance families look for when choosing care, that your care-management app doesn't surface.
Optional HireGuard work-style hiring for a sector that lives or dies on the people at the door — a science-based, advisory work-style check alongside a video interview, scored to the role. See how it works.
CareGuard is deliberately not a care-management or rostering system — the tools that run your care plans, visits and eMAR own the daily delivery, and we don't compete with them. We sit alongside whatever you use, as the CQC-evidence-and-mandatory-training layer plus the family-facing trust signal those tools don't provide. Built for the small and independent CQC-registered providers — care homes and domiciliary services — that carry the full weight of the single assessment framework without a dedicated compliance officer.
Coming soon — register interest
CareGuard provides compliance tools and content; it is not CQC and does not provide legal or clinical advice. Adult social care is a high-stakes regulated activity: generated policies, records and training are designed to support and evidence your compliance with the fundamental standards and CQC's assessment framework — they support, but do not replace, the provider's and registered manager's own legal responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of the people they support.