- inspection
- CQC monitors, inspects and regulates services, and encourages them to improve
- regulator
- England: the Care Quality Commission (CQC), independent regulator of health and adult social care. Scotland and Wales have separate inspectorates (see sources)
- reports
- CQC publishes what it finds, including ratings from Outstanding to Inadequate, for every registered service
GB
What Retirement Home Beacon covers about GB.
From our comparison tables
- mechanism
- A council financial assessment (means test) decides whether the council contributes — it looks at savings, income and property, and the more you have the more you pay yourself
- recovery
- Not a recovery in the French sense, but the council can refuse help if it judges wealth was deliberately reduced before the assessment
- threshold
- In England, the council generally helps to pay for care costs if savings are under £23,250 (the upper capital limit)