The Privy Council: history, functions and membership
A briefing paper on the history, functions and membership of the Privy Council

The Care Quality Commission has changed how it regulates adult residential care (i.e. care homes), replacing blanket annual inspections of all adult care services with the reintroduction of a “risk-based approach” meaning that poorly-rated services are inspected more frequently (together with some random inspections) under a new inspection framework underpinned by "Fundamental Standards".
Social care: Recent changes to the CQC's regulation of adult residential care (care homes) (781 KB , PDF)
There have been fundamental changes made to the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) inspection regime for adult residential care (i.e. care homes) in the past couple of years:
Community Care magazine has commented that the adoption of the previous risk-based approach (in place of annual inspections of all providers in place since 2012) meant that the CQC’s regulation of care homes was going “back to the future”.
Social care: Recent changes to the CQC's regulation of adult residential care (care homes) (781 KB , PDF)
A briefing paper on the history, functions and membership of the Privy Council
An overview of policy relating to the closure of bank and building society branches and to efforts to protect access to cash.
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