Journeys
Step-by-step business journeys
Follow our guided journeys to help you through major business milestones and changes.
Start a business 4
Planning and launching a new business venture
Start a healthcare business
Launch a healthcare or social care business with CQC registration
Start journey →Start a social care provider business
End-to-end learning path for starting a social care business. Covers which regulator applies, CQC registration, registered manager requirements, workforce qualifications (Care Certificate, SSSC, Social Care Wales), staffing levels, insurance, Care Act duties, and devolved nations.
Start journey →Start a childcare business
Launch a childcare business with Ofsted registration, safeguarding, and EYFS compliance
Start journey →Starting a social care provider business
Step-by-step guide to starting a social care business — from choosing your regulator through workforce requirements to financial planning.
Start journey →Comply with regulations 10
Meeting legal, safety, environmental, and sector-specific requirements
Run a healthcare business
Ongoing compliance for CQC-registered healthcare providers covering inspections, professional registration, safeguarding, clinical governance, medicines management, and staff obligations
Start journey →Meet environmental compliance requirements
Navigate your environmental obligations including waste duty of care, pollution prevention, packaging responsibilities, and energy reporting
Start journey →Healthcare compliance quick check
Quick compliance check for experienced healthcare providers. Covers CQC registration, professional registrations, DBS checks, medicines audit, controlled drugs register, IPC audit, fire risk assessment, DSPT submission, insurance, and policy reviews.
Start journey →Prepare for CQC's 2026 assessment framework
CQC is replacing the Single Assessment Framework with four sector-specific frameworks during 2026. Understand what is confirmed, what is still in transition, and get your evidence, governance, and staff ready ahead of rollout.
Start journey →Wales care compliance quick check
Quick checklist for Wales care providers to verify CIW registration, Responsible Individual appointment, Social Care Wales workforce registration, Statement of Purpose, and Welsh language provision.
Start journey →RQIA registration quick check
Quick checklist for Northern Ireland care providers to check whether their service needs RQIA registration, fit person requirements, care standards, and what inspections involve.
Start journey →Respond to a CQC investigation or enforcement action
What to do if your healthcare or social care service faces CQC enforcement action. Covers understanding the type and severity of action, immediate response steps, getting legal representation, developing an improvement plan, and the appeal process through the First-tier Tribunal.
Start journey →Scotland care compliance quick check
Quick compliance check for Scotland care providers covering Care Inspectorate registration, SSSC workforce registration, Health and Social Care Standards, and PVG scheme requirements.
Start journey →Respond to a medicines or controlled drugs incident
What to do when a medicines incident occurs: medication error, controlled drug discrepancy, or CD theft/loss. Covers securing the patient and evidence, internal reporting, statutory notifications to CQC, MHRA Yellow Card, police notification for CD theft, investigation, Accountable Officer responsibilities, and corrective actions.
Start journey →Running a childcare setting
Ongoing compliance for childcare providers covering inspections, safeguarding, SEND, food safety, and staff management
Start journey →Grow my business 1
Expanding operations, reaching new customers, and scaling up
Expanding your childcare business
Grow your childcare business through multi-site expansion, franchising, acquisitions, or building strong Ofsted inspection outcomes
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