Free CQC registration tool
CQC Registration Readiness Checker
Answer a few practical questions and get a readiness score, high-priority gaps and a plain-English action list for your domiciliary care registration documents.
The checker itself is structured and instant. The AI comes next: when you create a free account or buy the CQC Registration Pack, CareDocPro uses your profile to generate draft documents around your real agency details for you to review.
Provider and CQC basics
The application needs to be clear about who is carrying legal responsibility and what service is being registered.
You know your provider route
Individual, partnership, organisation, or other legal entity.
Your regulated activities are clear
Most home care providers need personal care, but the application must match your actual service.
Registered Manager details are ready
Name, experience, qualifications, fit person evidence and interview preparation.
Nominated Individual details are ready
Where required, the NI must be able to evidence oversight and fitness.
Registration documents
These are the documents new providers usually need close to hand before the application feels credible.
Statement of Purpose
Must reflect your locations, aims, regulated activities and service user groups.
Service User Guide
Plain-English guide for people using the service and their representatives.
Business plan or financial forecast
Shows the service is viable and properly planned.
Office or premises evidence
Lease, licence, home office arrangement or other evidence that fits your setup.
Core domiciliary care policies
Generic policies are weak if they do not name your real service, manager, routes and practice.
Safeguarding adults policy and procedure
Should include your local authority route, safeguarding lead and escalation process.
Medication policy and procedure
Should match prompting, assisting, administering, MAR charts, errors and competency checks.
Complaints policy
Needs acknowledgement, investigation, response, escalation and learning arrangements.
Business continuity plan
Staff shortages, system failure, extreme weather, missed visits and emergency contact routes.
Workforce and governance
CQC will want to understand how you keep staff safe, trained and accountable once care starts.
Recruitment, DBS and right-to-work process
Fit and proper staff evidence, references, identity checks and safe recruitment decisions.
Training and Care Certificate plan
Induction, mandatory training, refreshers and competency where needed.
Supervision, spot checks and appraisal schedule
How often these happen, who records them and how actions are followed up.
Quality assurance and audit framework
Medication audits, care plan reviews, complaints, incidents, feedback and governance meetings.
Local practice details
This is where CareDocPro can stand out: documents should sound like your agency, not a downloaded template.
Local authority safeguarding route added
Adult safeguarding team, referral pathway and out-of-hours contact where relevant.
People you will support are defined
Older adults, dementia, physical disability, learning disability, mental health or other groups.
Values and care approach are written down
Person-centred care, dignity, independence, choice, cultural needs and communication.
Review rhythms are decided
Care plan reviews, spot checks, supervisions, audits and policy review cycles.