Hi Sheila,

My question is similar to above:
I am setting up day care provision for young adults with disabilities and we will be offering PC.
Having gone through all the documents on the CQC and emailing them three times I am still confused.
I seem to think they are saying that only if PC is conducted in the client’s place of residence do you require to be registered. I will be offering day care in a purpose built building registered for the business.
When I asked they just replied saying it was up to providers to make the decision but I am so worried about getting this wrong.

Are you able to help please?
Many Thanks,
Georgina

Answered by Sheila Scott

Dear Georgina,

Thank you for your question.

I must refer you back to the answer I gave to a similar question in June:

“There is clear guidance on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) website about Day Centres.

If you look at the CQC website and this particular page about the provision of personal care you will see that personal care is defined as:

“The regulated activity of personal care consists of the provision of personal care for people who are unable to provide it for themselves, because of old age, illness or disability, and which is provided to them in the place where those people are living at the time when the care is provided. As an example, this includes personal care provided by a domiciliary care agency. It also includes Shared Lives schemes.”

https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/ra_1_personal_care.pdf

If you go to page 3 of this briefing document you will see in the flow chart that day care is identified as being out of scope.”

I particularly draw your attention to page 3 and the flow chart which clearly states that day care is out of the scope of registration.

This is about the regulation and not about any of our personal opinion of what the regulation should be.

You refer to younger adults in your question. If, of course, you were looking to provide care for children then you would need to be referring to Ofsted.

Best wishes.

Sheila