Improving your CQC Rating

This course is for Staffordshire Adult Social Care providers delivering care to individuals in Staffordshire or for individuals outside of Staffordshire receiving care funded or commissioned by Staffordshire County Council.

Course Dates

Improving your CQC rating - 10th February 2026 - 10:00 -16:00 - The Stone House Hotel, Brooms Park Stafford Road, Stone ST15 0BQ 

Improving your CQC rating - 10th March 2026 - 10:00 -16:00 - The Stone House Hotel, Brooms Park Stafford Road, Stone ST15 0BQ 

How to book this training

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Session Details

This training is being held at:

The Stone House Hotel, 
Brooms Park Stafford Road,
Stone,
ST15 0BQ 

Course Aim and Description

Are you struggling to meet CQC standards? Join our training and discover practical strategies to achieve a good rating.

Maintaining CQC standards is crucial for any regulated adult social care provider committed to delivering excellent care. It's essential to understand the CQC assessment process and how you can provide evidence that your care quality aligns with national standards. This not only benefits the individuals you support and your staff teams but also enhances your service's reputation.

Tailored for registered managers, quality leads, compliance leads, nominated individuals, owners and team leaders, the interactive seminar presents a step-by-step approach to driving improvements. You will gain insights into successful recovery strategies from a 'requires improvement' or 'inadequate' rating, learn how to identify and overcome obstacles to improvement and understand the specific evidence required to demonstrate successful resolution of issues.

The course includes two key elements:

1) Looking at the importance of implementing improvements and overcoming obstacles.
▪ The benefits of making improvements
▪ The impact of CQC regulations, notifications and breaches
▪ What to avoid on your improvement journey
▪ Overcoming the barriers to improvement

2) Looking at how to involve others in driving forward improvements and evidencing changes made.
▪ Involving others in helping you to improve
▪ Practical problems and solutions
▪ How to action and evidence improvements
▪ Maintaining quality

Key Benefits include:
- Strategically prepare your team for CQC re-assessment, ensuring a clear path to success.
- Understand what evidence is expected and learn how to demonstrate that your service meets the CQC's standards.
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the support systems available to you for effective CQC assessment.
- Understand how to implement practical solutions within your service.
- Receive an electronic participant toolkit with seminar materials, useful insight and guidance.

Booking Changes

Please note, by booking onto this training course you are committing to attending at the referenced date and time. Your space on this session has cost Staffordshire County Council and while there is not a cost to yourself or your organisation, public funds have been utilised to fund the training. 

If you cannot attend, you can send someone in your place but we will require notification so we can update the course register. 

If you are unable to attend or send someone in your place, we ask for 7 working days’ notice in order to have the opportunity to offer this space to others. 

All bookings or unenrolment changes should be emailed to cmdt@staffordshire.gov.uk

Car Parking

Please note that there is free on site car parking at The Stone House Hotel.

Refreshment's

A small basic lunch will be provided on the day. 

Drinks will not be provided on the day, however there are shops close by and a cafe on site.

If you have any additional requirements, such as the need for British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation or mobility requirements, please let us know in advance so that we can make the necessary arrangements to accommodate your needs.

Waiting List

If this course is fully booked, or you are unable to attend of the available dates, you can request to be added to the waiting list.