CQC Quality Statements

Service Overview

Evidence-Led Compliance That Stands Up to Inspection

Care Quality Commission now assesses providers through Quality Statements, not tick-box inspections.
This means your policies, systems, leadership, and evidence trail must demonstrate outcomes — not intent.

At 360Compliance, we don’t explain Quality Statements.
We operationalise them.

We translate every Quality Statement into inspection-ready evidence, mapped to your service, your risks, and your operating model.

Scope of Service

How CQC Uses Quality Statements (Tell It Like It Is)

  • Inspectors no longer ask “do you have a policy?”
  • They ask “prove it works in practice”
  • Evidence must show:
    • Consistency
    • Oversight
    • Learning
    • Leadership grip

If your documents don’t align to Quality Statements, you are already exposed.

 

The Five CQC Key Questions — With Real Examples That Inspectors Look For

Key Question
What CQC is Really Testing
What Inspectors Probe in Inspection
Where Providers commonly Fall
Conversion Hook

SAFE

• Risk anticipation
• Incident learning
• Safeguarding effectiveness

  • Safeguarding referrals analysed for themes — not just logged
  • Risk assessments that change after incidents, not static documents
  • Policies exist but no evidence of learning
  • Incident logs with no governance review

If an inspector asks ‘what changed after your last safeguarding concern?’ — can you answer in under 30 seconds?

Effective

  • Outcome tracking
  • Clinical oversight
  • Competency assurance
  • Care plans updated following deterioration or review
  • Training matrices linked to regulated activity risks
  • Audits that drive improvement, not paper compliance
  • Generic audits
  • No evidence that outcomes improved

If CQC samples three care plans today — will they see measurable improvement over time?

Caring

  • Culture in practice
  • Personalisation
  • Voice of the service user
  • Complaints that lead to service change
  • Evidence of capacity assessments and best-interest decisions
  • Staff language and tone aligning with care records
  • Over-reliance on testimonials
  • No governance response to feedback

Kindness isn’t claimed — it’s evidenced. Can you prove dignity is embedded, not assumed?

Responsive

  • Adaptability
  • Equality access
  • Timeliness
  • Reasonable adjustments made and reviewed
  • Waiting-time data and mitigation actions
  • How complaints inform service redesign
  • Equality policies with no operational impact
  • No evidence of service adaptation

If CQC asks how you adjusted your service for one individual — can you show the paper trail?

Well-led

  • Board grip
  • Risk ownership
  • Governance maturity
  • Provider oversight of Registered Manager performance
  • Risk registers reviewed and acted upon
  • Quality meetings leading to tracked actions
  • No link between audits, risks, and leadership decisions
  • Governance that exists only on paper

If CQC interviews your Provider, NI, and RM separately — will the answers align?

Delivery Process

Clients provide details of their business model, based on which we develop tailored Quality Statements aligned with their services and regulatory requirements.

Pricing

We follow a tiered pricing model based on the type and complexity of the service you wish to register. Our published baseline fees are:

Health & Social Care Providers

£2,000 +VAT

Note: Final price may vary if your service requires bespoke policy work, unusual premises, complex governance, or additional support. Before commencing, we will provide a full scoped quotation — no fee adjustments without your explicit agreement.

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Our Clients

We work with a wide range of new and established care and education providers across the UK, supporting them at every stage of their regulatory journey. Our clients include organisations preparing for registration, services undergoing inspection, and providers strengthening governance and quality systems to meet ongoing regulatory requirements. We take pride in building trusted, long-term partnerships focused on compliance, quality, and sustainable service delivery.