A CQC compliance readiness tool for quality statements, the five key questions, predicted ratings, and evidence packs — used all year, not the week before the inspector arrives.
CQC assesses services under five key questions: safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led. Under the single assessment framework those questions are scored through quality statements — we implemented 32 of them in CQC-Guard — each expecting evidence, not a slogan. Older teams still organise folders by KLOEs (key lines of enquiry). The regulation moved; the shared drive often did not.
Registered managers, nominated individuals, and provider-level staff need different views. A care assistant should attach an incident form. A registered manager should see a predicted rating and the gaps that would drag Safe below Good. A provider group should see which locations have stale evidence.
A readiness tool walks each quality statement, lets people attach evidence (policy, audit, training record, duty-of-candour log), records a self-score, and writes a predicted rating with an explanation you can disagree with. Action plans sit on the statements that are weak. Role-based access keeps staff from editing provider-level judgements they do not own.
The tool does not impersonate CQC. It does not scrape the register and declare you Outstanding. Predicted ratings are labelled as internal, dated, and tied to the evidence pack as it stood that day.
We encode your service type’s quality statements, map any leftover KLOE folders so staff can find things, define roles (staff, registered manager, provider), and ship an evidence pack export an inspector can actually open. First location in 30 days if the statement set is agreed. More locations and group roll-up follow on a retainer.
Ofsted safeguarding evidence for education settings is a sibling problem — same evidence-pack pattern, different framework. See document intelligence.
We will sketch the evidence model and who is allowed to sign it off.
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