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<p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult
social care in England. The CQC has provided the following information.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>CQC has outlined its commitment to working with local authorities to
minimise duplication, including in adult social care, in its provider handbooks which
were published on 9 October 2014. This includes CQC inspection managers having regular
meetings with their assigned local authorities, attending local safeguarding meetings
where relevant and also local safeguarding boards to provide an update on CQC’s work
annually. In addition, providers are asked to complete a CQC Provider Information
Return and an evaluation form before an inspection. 79% of residential care providers
responding said they had not recently been asked to provide similar information for
any other purposes.</p><p> </p><p>CQC has organised its adult social care directorate
to reflect local authority boundaries which will allow the alignment of CQC staff
with local authorities for commissioning and information sharing and safeguarding.</p><p>
</p><p>CQC’s Adult Social Care inspection staff also have relationships with local
clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) which enables the CCGs to update CQC on the outcomes
of their contract monitoring visits as well as CQC providing the CCG with information
and outcomes of recent inspections in the area.</p><p> </p><p>CQC anticipates that
as its new methodology beds down and more services are rated, local authorities will
have greater confidence in the regulatory system for adult social care and therefore
reduce their activity for those services with ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ ratings. Local
authorities will always have their own contract monitoring duties to fulfil but one
of the benefits of the new regulatory approach should be a minimisation of unnecessary
duplication of activities. There is work underway between CQC and the Association
of Directors of Adult Social Services to develop an information sharing portal.</p><p>
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