Whether you are a nanny, child minder or run a care home, there are important laws and regulations which exist to ensure care services meet good standards of quality and safety. As a care provider in Cornwall you will need to consider a wide range of aspects, such as:
- Registration as a childminder or care provider
- Gaining the appropriate certificates
- Training such as first aid
- Ensuring fit and proper persons employed
- Necessary training
- Insurance
- Ensuring premises and facilities are suitable and safe
- Food hygiene, tolerance and allergens awareness
- Environmental considerations such as air quality, lighting and temperature
- Correct administration of medicine
- Correct record keeping
- Display of performance assessments
Our Business Regulatory Support team can provide trusted expertise to help guide you through the process of complying with necessary care regulations, ensuring you comply with the law and helping receivers of your care feel confident when using your services.
Contact our friendly team today on 0300 1234 212 or email businessadvice@cornwall.gov.uk to get help with your regulatory needs
Care Providers Self Service Information
If you would prefer to achieve your own compliance with care regulations, here are some links to further information which may help.
- Safer Food Better Business pack - This food safety management pack helps restaurants, cafés, takeaways and other small catering businesses comply with food hygiene regulations
- SFBB: Childminders - This Safer food, better business (SFBB) pack is especially for childminders
- SFFB: Care homes - This Safer food, better business (SFBB) supplement is for small residential care homes that prepare and cook safer food for the residents in their care
- Care Quality Commission - Monitoring, inspection and regulation of health and social care services
- CQC registration - Any person (individual, partnership or organisation) who provides regulated activity in England must be registered with us otherwise they commit an offence.
- Becoming a child minder - Information regarding joining the appropriate childcare register
- HSE guidance - This guidance is intended to help those providing and managing care homes – to give them a better understanding of the real risks and how to manage them effectively
If there are topics not covered in the list above, we would also recommend reading our general self-service information.
Need Further Help?
If you need any more help or support with care regulations, please get in touch with the Business Regulatory Support team by clicking the button below.