CQCLogic Team

CQC Whistleblowing: How to Raise a Concern, How CQC Handles It and What Care Providers Must Do (2026) How staff can raise a concern with CQC, what happens next, what the law protects, and what registered managers and providers need in their whistleblowing and freedom to speak up arrangements. 📅 Updated October 2026 🕐 11 … Read more

Sponsor Licence & Care Worker Visas: What Changed in 2025 If you’re still planning your workforce strategy around overseas recruitment the way it worked in 2023, you’re planning around a route that closed. Here’s what actually changed, when, and what your sponsor licence still requires of you now. 📅 Published September 2026 🕐 10 min … Read more

Buying or Selling a Care Home: CQC Due Diligence Explained Whether a care home sale is a CQC ‘sale and transfer’, a change of control, or something else determines the registration path, the staff outcome and what a buyer should check. Here is how CQC’s own process works, and what due diligence covers beyond compliance. … Read more

Sleep-In Shifts and the National Minimum Wage: What Care Providers Must Know The Supreme Court settled the headline question in 2021 — but “settled” doesn’t mean “safe to ignore.” Sleep-in pay is still one of the easiest ways for a care provider to end up with a five-figure back-pay bill. Free tool: Free sleep-in pay … Read more

Right Support, Right Care, Right Culture: CQC Guidance Explained CQC’s statutory guidance for services supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability: the three factors, the four things you must demonstrate, campus and congregate settings, and the pre-application process. 📅 Updated September 2026 🕐 12 min read Regulation guide ✍️ CQCLogic Team ✅ Checked … Read more

CQC Provider Information Return (PIR): What It Asks, Deadlines and How to Complete It What the PIR is, who receives it and when, what the residential and community forms ask, the figures to prepare, what CQC says about the deadline, and how to write concise, evidenced answers. 📅 Updated September 2026 🕐 10 min read … Read more

Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training: What CQC Now Expects This has been a statutory requirement since 2022 — but a new Code of Practice from September 2025 turned it into something CQC can inspect against directly. Here’s what actually changed, and what it means for your staff training records. 📅 Published September 2026 🕐 9 min … Read more

Change of Registered Manager: CQC Forms, Steps and Deadlines Who has to do what when a registered manager leaves or a new one is appointed: the provider’s notification, the outgoing manager’s cancellation, the incoming manager’s application, the 28-day absence rule and what to do about the gap in between. 📅 Updated September 2026 🕐 8 … Read more