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What is grading?

Each service is graded against four quality themes at each
inspection. The themes are:

•

quality of care and support

•

quality of environment/information

•

quality of staffing

•

quality of management and leadership.

The six point grading scale

Each of the themes is graded against the following scale:

6

– excellent

5

– very good

4

– good

3

– adequate

2

– weak

1

– unsatisfactory

This means that for each care service there will be four grades
awarded after inspection, for example 5,3,4,6. There will not be one
overall grade.

Self assessment

Services self-assess themselves against the guidance provided by

the Care Commission. The Care Commission Officer takes this into

account when doing the inspection and then grades the service. To
achieve better grades, care service providers must show that they
have involved people who use their service in the assessment. The

final say on the grades awarded sits with the Care Commission, as

the regulator.

For full details see:

http://www.carecommission.com/