Department of Health written question – answered at on 2 March 2017.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of (a) independent and (b) local authority controlled care homes were rated (i) outstanding, (ii) good, (iii) requires improvement and (iv) inadequate in each year since 2009-10.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England.
Following an inspection, the CQC rates a provider on a four point scale running from outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate. This gives patients and the public a fair, balanced and easy to understand assessment of performance of a provider. The CQC began rating adult social care providers in October 2014 following the introduction of its new inspection methodology.
The CQC has provided the following information:
The attached tables show the number and percentage of care homes rated by financial year.
The CQC is not currently able to separate private and council-run services within adult social care. The CQC is currently looking at the way in which it records and reports on adult social care information.
Data is shown in financial years from 2014/15 only as this is when the CQC began rating services. The CQC began rating adult social care services on 1 October 2014 which is why the figures for 2014/15 are lower than in other years.
A cumulative total for the number of rated care homes has been used as this provides a more accurate figure for the proportion of rated care homes.
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