What makes care outstanding?

Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2026.

This research looks at what makes care outstanding. In 2021, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) – the independent regulator of health and social care in England – started a major programme of change. Three independent reviews in 2024 and 2025 found serious problems with the way CQC put the changes into practice (Care Provider Alliance 2025; Dash 2024; Richards 2024). As a result, CQC is now rebuilding its approach to regulation. This includes developing 4 sector specific assessment frameworks.

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Children and Young People’s Mental Health (CYPMH) evidence-based bulletin

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Preferences for Models of Care for Older People With High Care Needs: Survey of People Aged 50 years and Over in England.

Walbaum M. Health and Social Care in the Community 2026;Jan(1):9635386.

The rising number of older adults, many with long-term conditions or limitations in activities of daily living, is expected to increase demand for social care services and for housing options to accommodate their future care needs. Additionally, an increasingly diverse population may require care models that respond to different preferences, beliefs and values. This study aims to explore how preferences to meet future care needs vary across demographic, socioeconomic and care-related factors.

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Education Bulletin

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Inclusion Bulletin

from Pennine Care

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Learning Disabilities

By Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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In this edition:

  • Supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability to live well in their communities
  • Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment: interim report
  • “A way out”: CQC-led reviews support autistic people and people with a learning disability out of long-term segregation
  • NHS England community living guidance for people with learning disabilities
  • Report Launch – Building a Bridge: How to end the cliff edge of transition between children’s and adult services for young people with learning disabilities in England
  • Care England launches new choking prevention guide for people with learning disabilities
  • Plus much more

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Neurodiversity Bulletin

By Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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In this edition:

  • Why are the youngest in class more often prescribed pharmacological treatment for ADHD?
  • Reproductive health and healthcare experiences in autistic and non-autistic individuals assigned female at birth
  • Supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability to live well in their communities
  • “A way out”: CQC-led reviews support autistic people and people with a learning disability out of long-term segregation
  • How Does Dyslexia Affect Social Skills?
  • How does parent‑child interaction therapy work? And who can use it?
  • Plus much more

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Implementing system-wide positive behaviour support through capable environments: a practice-based evaluation.

Knight J. Tizard Learning Disability Review 2026;31(2): 138–150.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the feasibility, acceptability and early outcomes of implementing a system-wide PBS model, using service-based evaluation data from a pilot. The model targeted organisational domains within the capable environments (CE) framework as a universal-level support. A pre–post, mixed-methods design was used with two UK-based adult IDD service providers.

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