CareGuard keeps your staff register, DBS and Right-to-Work checks, and incident log up to date — then turns them into a one-press inspection pack the day CQC calls. Built for the small, independent providers — care homes and domiciliary services — carrying the full weight of the single assessment framework on their own. It works alongside your care-planning system; it doesn't replace it.
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.
Everything a small provider needs to keep its CQC evidence dated, signed and retrievable — in one place, set up in an afternoon. It sits alongside the rostering and care-planning tools that run your daily care; it doesn't compete with them.
A 2-minute self-check across the CQC fundamental standards (Regs 9–20A) gives you a readiness score and a prioritised list of where to focus first — before the inspector does it for you. No card, no commitment. Take the check.
Add your whole team in minutes. Care workers confirm their own details with a single tap by text — no passwords and no logins to manage for floor staff — so your register stays current without chasing.
Record every DBS and Right-to-Work check with its issue and re-check dates, and CareGuard chases what's expiring before it lapses. We hold the dates and outcome only — never the disclosed certificate content.
Medication errors, safeguarding concerns, accidents and falls — logged, categorised and tracked to resolution, with a dated audit trail that stands up on the day and shows the action you took.
When the inspector calls, assemble your staff register, pre-employment checks, incident log and policies into a single dated PDF in one click — the evidence, in order, without the late-night scramble.
CareGuard is deliberately not a care-management or eMAR system, and it doesn't ask you to migrate. It's the CQC-evidence layer that sits beside whatever you already use to run care plans and visits. From £49/month.
Start with the free CQC-readiness check — answer one question per fundamental standard and get an honest score with a prioritised list of what to fix first. No card, no sales call. When you're ready, your account turns those gaps into a working compliance layer for £49/month.
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CareGuard provides compliance tools and content; it is not CQC and does not provide legal or clinical advice. The readiness check is an indicative self-assessment to help you prepare — it is not a CQC judgement. Adult social care is a high-stakes regulated activity: the records, checks and evidence CareGuard helps you keep 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.