Free resources for home care owners.
Tools, checklists and guides built from inside a working CQC-rated Good domiciliary care service in England. Useful enough to be worth your email. Narrow enough not to substitute for the full operating method.
If you’re thinking about starting a service.
Three resources for aspiring owners. Decide whether to start, structure your CQC application correctly, and budget realistically before you spend a penny.
Should you start a home care business?
Seven honest questions to help you decide before you spend a penny on registration, software, or staffing. Capital, time, accountability, motivation. Score yourself in 15 minutes.
20 CQC Fit Person interview questions.
The questions inspectors ask most, with the answers Shazad gives in his own voice. Practitioner answers, not rehearsed scripts. Read his, then write yours.
Real startup costs, England 2026.
Stage-by-stage cost breakdown with real numbers. Pre-application, application, first month operating, recurring monthly. Lean vs. Standard totals.
If you’re running a service day to day.
Tools for owners and registered managers operating an active service. The audits, checklists and frameworks we use inside our own service.
Care Plan Quality Score Sheet.
Twenty checkpoints across five categories. Score your care plans against what inspectors actually look for. Designed to be re-used weekly.
CQC Inspection Readiness Checklist.
Forty-point checklist mapped to the Single Assessment Framework. The version we use inside our own service to walk into every inspection.
The Domiciliary Care Delivery Calculator.
Plug in your charge rate, team, and fixed costs. The calculator gives you the minimum weekly delivery target your service needs to cover the lot.
Want the full operating method?
Home Care Built to Scale is the complete programme behind these resources. 60+ video lessons, 260+ policies, 250+ templates, three 1:1 calls with Shazad. Lifetime access. Day-one delivery.
See what’s inside the course →The home of Home Care Built to Scale. The programme for domiciliary care owners and registered managers operating in England, under CQC.