Thank you for completing this survey. It is estimated to take 10-15 minutes.

This survey is the first part of a project undertaken by the Care Provider Alliance, which is working across the adult social care community to ensure that as many care providers as possible have a voice in the CQC's review of the Single Assessment Framework (The Independent Review of the CQC by Dr Penny Dash identified a number of specific concerns about the SAF which has led to this review).

The first stage of this review will focus on your operational experiences of the Single Assessment Framework, either in preparation or during inspection. This is open for managers/ deputy managers/ senior managers/ nominated individuals/ quality/ compliance leads working in a regulated care service to respond to.

Feedback from this survey will inform the second stage of this project, which will look more closely at what people want for the future.

The purpose of this survey: This survey is designed to be completed at individual service level, to capture your operational experience of the Single Assessment Framework – we are asking as many services as possible to complete this survey regardless of whether you have had an inspection or not under the SAF.

There are then specific further questions for those services that HAVE had an inspection.

We are also keen to capture organisational level feedback for those care providers with several services – that is not captured in this survey. Instead, please email cpasafreview@nationalcareforum.org.uk so that we can invite you to a focus group discussion to learn more about wider organisational perspectives.

This survey will close at 5pm on Sunday 20th October.

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