H&S and HR built around care, not bolted onto it.
Safety is one of the five key questions the CQC asks of every provider, and your rating rests on the everyday stuff: safe moving and handling, lone workers covered, policies that match what staff actually do. We're CQC-aware, we lead with the safety of your staff and the people you support, and we keep the advice practical for a team that hasn't got a spare hour. A named consultant, not a call centre and a ticket number.
Reassurance you can show an inspector, with the proof beside it.
If you're not fully confident in your H&S compliance, you're not alone.
Many directors, owners and managers appointed as a responsible or competent person lack confidence in maintaining their health and safety compliance, and not every registered manager is sure their staff understand the H&S policy or how vicarious liability is shared. It's fixable: the gap closes once someone competent owns the system with you.
Most care managers run H&S on top of rotas, safeguarding and a team that turns over fast. It gets done properly until it doesn't, and the gap only shows when an accident happens or an inspector asks.
Failing to meet your H&S duties is a criminal offence, and the fines can't be insured against. Proceedings can be brought not only against directors but against managers and other officers personally.
Your consultant acts as your competent person, so the legal duty sits with someone qualified and your registered manager gets the cover they need, not another job on the list.
Health and safety, HR and CQC readiness, mapped to the way care actually works.
Residential homes and domiciliary settings each carry their own risk profile. We cover both, and tailor the arrangements to how your service runs.
Moving and handling assessments, lone-worker arrangements for community staff, COSHH for cleaning and clinical substances, fire risk assessment, and infection prevention and control. Your consultant acts as your competent person.
Audits that stress-test you against current law, find the gaps and tell you how to close them, before an inspector does. RIDDOR-reportable incidents investigated and recorded properly.
Safe staffing, contracts and conduct, and absence management in a setting where short-notice sickness puts service users at risk. Disciplinary and grievance handled properly, so a dismissal doesn't become a tribunal.
We map your H&S and HR to the CQC assessment framework and the "safe" key question, so an inspection finds your evidence already in order rather than assembled in a panic.
Care H&S and HR, in depth.
Two dedicated guides to how we support care providers on each side.
The CQC has changed how it assesses you. We help you get ahead of it, not caught out by it.
The CQC's single assessment framework has moved things onto quality statements and evidence categories, with more frequent, data-led judgements and less reliance on the old set-piece inspection. Well-led and safety sit right at the centre of it, and that's exactly where health & safety and HR evidence carries weight. We help providers line up the evidence now, so an assessment isn't a scramble. [Some specifics of the current CQC regime move quickly — we'll confirm the exact detail with you.]
We map your health & safety and HR records to the quality statements the assessment now runs on — safe environments, safe staffing, governance — so the evidence is there before it's asked for, not reconstructed afterwards.
Assessments are more continuous and evidence-driven than the old announced inspection. We help you keep a live, inspection-ready position year-round rather than preparing in a panic when contact comes.
The 'safe' and 'well-led' areas lean heavily on H&S and governance. Your named consultant acts as competent person and gives you the risk assessments, audits and records that stand up under scrutiny.
We'll run your service against the current framework and hand you a prioritised action plan — what an assessor would flag, ranked by what to fix first, so you can close gaps on your own terms.
One named consultant who knows care, and knows your service.
Not a call centre and a ticket number. Over a year they become an extension of your team: the person who knows your home, your staffing pressures and your last inspection. It's an ongoing advisory relationship with someone who owns the safety system alongside you, not a one-off audit that ends when the report lands.
The care specialist you'll actually work with.
You get one named consultant who works with providers every week, qualified in your field, and you keep them. They learn your service, your people and the way you actually run.
“Care doesn't keep office hours, and neither do the problems. When something happens at 7pm, someone who knows your setting should actually pick up.”
Book a free care reviewWhen something happens at 7pm, someone who knows your setting picks up.
Care doesn't keep office hours. One care provider rates us on exactly that.
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Common questions about care compliance
What does health and safety mean in a care home?
What does the CQC check for on health and safety?
Do we need a competent person for health and safety in a care setting?
How do you handle absence and sickness in a high-turnover care team?
Can you help us get ready for a CQC inspection?
We run domiciliary care, not a home. Does this still apply?
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Walk into your next inspection knowing you're covered.
Book a free care review with a consultant who works with providers every week. We'll look at where you are against the "safe" key question and tell you what to tackle first. No pitch.