Welcome to this online learning course focused on regulation and governance

Governance can be defined as a collection of systems and processes concerned with ensuring the overall direction, effectiveness, supervision and accountability of an organisation or service. Within adult social care, good governance is paramount due to the nature of the work completed and the impact your management can have on people’s lives.

Good governance means that accountability is recognised and accepted. It means that lessons are really learned and that there’s honesty and openness in seeing the best possible outcomes for people. There’s an expectation that you’ll take appropriate action to address failings, as well as exploring and improving the situation that allowed any failings to occur.

This course is aligned to Standard 3 of the Manager Induction Standards and will cover the following topics:

• Regulation in adult social care
• The role of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in adult social care

100% of the cost of these modules can be reimbursed via the Adult Social Care Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS).

Objectives

When you’ve completed this 60 minute online course you will be able to:

• Outline key drivers, legislation and policy that underpin the delivery of social care
• explain what is meant by the term ‘personalisation’ and the impact that it has on the social care sector
• explain the reasons for inspection, its key drivers and legislation and how the five key questions for the inspection structure may impact on your organisation
• explain how agreed ways of working such as protocols, policies and procedure relate to governance and accountability.