Quality Assurance

Our commitment is to provide the very best support we can offer, to ensure people using our services have the best quality of life. Our quality assurance processes cover every aspect of our service delivery and help ensure that our services meet the high standards we expect.

Our day service provision is subject to regular in-house reviews by our management team to ensure that the programme offered is well-led, safely delivered and offers plenty of opportunities that help people to develop skills and confidence.
Our Supported Living Service and Residential Service are regulated by The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and our services are assessed under their Single Assessment Framework that focuses on the following five key areas:

Being safe

Being effective

Being caring

Being responsive to people’s needs

Being well-led

How We Meet the Requirements of the Single Assessment Framework:

Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-led
Safe, properly trained staff Giving people choice Kind and compassionate care and support Person centred approaches Experienced management
Safe environment Improving health outcomes Respecting people’s privacy Seeing and listening Effective governance
Effective medication management Experienced staff team Upholding people’s dignity Flexible approach to changing needs Values that underpin service delivery
Risk management Partnership working with families and professionals Promoting emotional wellbeing Implementing change when needed Regular service reviews
Effective safeguarding Quality Assurance Respecting individuality Being accountable for decisions Clear policies and procedures

Service Delivery Legislation:

  • The Care Act 2014
  • The Data Protection Act 2018
  • The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
  • The Equality Act 2010
  • The Health & Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014
  • The Human Rights Act 1998
  • The Mental Capacity Act 2005
  • The Mental Capacity Code of Practice
  • The UK General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)