Find out whether your care-business idea has enough structure to move forward.
£99
A written readiness roadmap for people who want to start a domiciliary-care service but are not yet sure what CQC registration involves, what evidence is needed or whether the basics are in place.
Start Phase — £99: guided questions, on-screen result and emailed written roadmap. Start Phase plus a 20-minute clarification call — £148. A post-Start consultation can be purchased later for £69.
Start Phase — £99A £99 problem is better than a £5,000 mistake.
The Start Phase is designed for the moment before things become expensive. It helps you understand whether the basic idea has a sensible starting point, whether obvious blockers are already visible, and whether it is worth moving into the Viable Phase. It is not a guarantee of registration. It gives you a plain early signal and a written roadmap you can keep.
What the £99 report teaches you
CQC registration has its own language. Before a strong application can be prepared, you need to understand the difference between the regulated activity, the service type, the people the service will support, the Registered Manager role, the Nominated Individual or provider oversight, and the evidence that supports those answers.
For a typical domiciliary care agency, the main regulated activity is usually Personal care. In plain English, that means support with personal tasks such as washing, dressing, toileting, eating, drinking or similar support in a person's own home. The Readiness Check helps you start using that language correctly before the application becomes more detailed.
The report is deliberately educational. Even when the answer is "not yet", the purpose is to show the route forward: what to decide, what to evidence and what to fix before spending more money.
What people often underestimate
New providers often focus on the dream of the service first: the people they want to support, the area they know and the team they hope to build. That matters. But an application also needs a clear provider structure, named accountable people, a credible management route, a basic operating model and evidence that the idea is more than a hope.
If those foundations are missing, the problem is not only that the form is incomplete. The application may give CQC little confidence that the proposed provider understands the responsibility it is asking to take on.
The Readiness Check is not there to make the idea look better than it is. It is there to tell you whether the foundations are clear enough to keep going.
- Provider/service reviewWhat you want to register, who is behind it and whether the outline makes sense.
- Obvious blockersEarly issues that could stop or delay progress if ignored.
- RM/NI starting positionWhether the management structure has an obvious route or a major gap.
- Documents already heldWhat evidence, plans, policies or people information already exists.
- Major missing basicsFoundational items that need attention before deeper review.
- Written roadmap reportA clear readiness report, shown on screen and emailed to you, that explains what to do next.
- No telephone supportThe £99 stage is a written check. Telephone/adviser discussion belongs to later support stages.
Three preparation positions.
This is not the full application. It is the Start Phase before deeper Viable work. A cautious answer should not put you off; it should show you how to get ready properly.