The one thing CQC can prosecute you for without a warning first.
Most of the regulations give you a chance to put things right. Notifications do not. CQC can go straight to prosecution for a breach, without serving a warning notice, and it says so on their own guidance pages.
Most services under-notify. Most do not know they are doing it, because almost nobody has read the actual list. This is the list, the deadlines, and the six judgement calls that come up in home care.
Notifications are the visible end of an incident process.
The incident and accident forms, the safeguarding referral process, the duty of candour templates, the investigation format and the governance cycle that turns all of it into something you can show, are inside the course. The same ones in daily use in a CQC-rated Good domiciliary care service in England.
See what is inside →The home of Home Care Built to Scale. The programme for domiciliary care owners and registered managers operating in England, under CQC.