This week's key regulatory and sector developments from CQC, NHS England and WHO Keeping up with regulatory and sector developments is essential for care providers. This week's update highlights three important developments that care-home managers and staff should be aware of, covering safe care and risk management, winter flu preparedness, and cognitive health and dementia care. This Week at a Glance Organisation Updates CQC A registered manager was ordered to pay £2,333 after failures...

A service can be trading comfortably and still fail this part of well-led. Not because the numbers are bad, but because nobody can produce evidence that anyone has been checking them on purpose. The gap between being viable and proving it is what this piece is about. Why this matters CQC published four draft sector-specific assessment frameworks on 24 March 2026. The adult social care draft replaces the 34 cross-sector quality statements with 24 sector-specific key lines of enquiry, removes...

What adult social care providers need to know about the Mental Health Act 2025 : what's changed, what's coming, and what to act on now.