Making the Grade
South Ayrshire Nightstop
"South Ayrshire Nightstop make the grade with grade 5's across the board"
Information about the Care commission and the grading system.
Who are the Care Commission
The Care Commission help to improve care services in Scotland. They are an Independent public organisation answerable to the Scottish Government.
What do they do
They work with care services, the Scottish Government and other public bodies to improve the quality of all care services across Scotland.
Services they regulate
The Care Commission regulate just under 15,000 care services in Scotland who care for around 320,000 people and provide jobs for around 139,000 people.
The Legal Background
The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (the Act) gives us the power to regulate Scotland's care services. It set out how regulatiion should take place and defines the care services we regulate. The Care Commission assess all those who provide care service under the Act and the regulaations associated with it. The Commission also take into account the Scottish Social Setrvices (SSSC) codes of practice and Scotland's National Care Strandards.
Grading Our Service
The Care Commission now grade care services when they inspect services. Care Services are graded against up to four quality themes at each inspection.
The themes are
- Quailty of Care and support
- Quality of environment/information
- Quality of staffing
- Quality of Management and leadership
Each theme is graded using a six point scale:
- 6 exellent
- 5 Very Good
- 4 good
- 3 adequate
- 2 weak
- 1 unsatisfactory
To find out how good our service is:
Check out our grades
Read our inspection report
Speak to our Care commission inspector
Click on the link to visit the Care Commission
