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<p>The Government is committed to improving the quality of adult social care. We have
taken a number of recent steps to do so.</p><p>In October 2014, we introduced a tougher
inspection system by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Following inspections, CQC
now also awards each service a single quality rating, with providers rated as “Outstanding”,
“Good”, “Requires Improvement” or “Inadequate”. Services rated “Inadequate” are being
placed into Special Measures. They will have access to a range of resources to help
them to improve, but if they fail to do so, they could face closure.</p><p>These new
ratings and other information about the type and quality of care at every care home
and homecare service in the country are now available on NHS Choices and the MyNHS
Transparency website, making it much easier for people to compare the quality of services.</p><p>This
year we introduced a <em>Certificate of Fundamental Care</em>, now known as the Care
Certificate. This will help ensure that care workers can deliver a consistently high
quality standard of care.</p><p>The Department is funding and working with a number
of organisations including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE),
Skills for Care, the Social Care Institute for Excellence, the Association of Directors
of Adult Social Services and the Local Government Association on a range of projects
to help adult social care organisations and staff improve the quality of care. These
resources include new NICE Quality Standards and Guidelines which bring clarity to
what excellence looks like in care and Commissioning for Better Outcomes – A Route
Map<sup>*</sup> that sets out a series of commissioning standards that will</p><p>be
used as part of local government sector-led improvement to drive best practices in
local authority commissioning under their new duties in the Care Act 2015.</p><br
/><p><sup>*</sup>Available at <a href="http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/5756320/Commissioning+for+Better+Outcomes+A+route+map/8f18c36f-805c-4d5e-b1f5-d3755394cfab"
target="_blank">http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/5756320/Commissioning+for+Better+Outcomes+A+route+map/8f18c36f-805c-4d5e-b1f5-d3755394cfab</a></p>
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