Right support, right care, right culture: How CQC regulates providers supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability (updated guidance, 7 June 2022)

Summary

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revised its “Registering the right support” guidance to make it clearer for providers who support autistic people and/or people with a learning disability. 

Following feedback from people who use services CQC has updated its guidance so it has a stronger focus on outcomes for people including the quality of life people are able to experience and the care they receive.

Content

Now called Right support, right care, right culture, the guidance (published on 8 October 2020), outlines three key factors that CQC expects providers to consider if they are, or want to care for autistic people and/or people with a learning disability:

Right support: The model of care and setting should maximise people's choice, control and independence

Right care: Care should be person-centred and promote people's dignity, privacy and human rights

Right culture: The ethos, values, attitudes and behaviours of leaders and care staff should ensure people using services lead confident, inclusive and empowered lives