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For adult home care staff in England

Safe, caring, well-led — in every visit.

Thirty short lessons across all five areas — Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led — on everyday safety, dignity, food, records and speaking up, with your own secure learning record.

Access is by invitation. New accounts stay pending until a manager approves them.

Illustration of a care worker arriving at a person's home

What's inside

Six lessons in each area. The content is a proposed learning aid that still needs manager review before it is published to staff.

Safe

Safeguarding, home safety and risk, infection control, medicines, falls and moving, emergencies and missed visits.

Effective

Care plans and competence, food hygiene and allergens, cooking and reheating, nutrition and swallowing, consent and capacity, handover.

Caring

Dignity and privacy, comfort and noticing pain, personal care with consent, culture and faith, independence, wellbeing and boundaries.

Responsive

Person-centred routines, dementia and accessible communication, continuity and hospital transitions, complaints, advocacy, end-of-life wishes.

Well-led

Accurate records, incidents and candour, speaking up, supervision and fatigue, equality and partnerships, learning and improvement.

Your record

Private to you and your organisation's managers.

Proposed learning aid (version 1.0 / 1.1), 19 October 2026 — England adult services only. Lessons are grouped under CQC's five key questions for learning; this is not a claim that any CQC requirement is met. Not endorsed by CQC. Completing it is not proof of clinical or practical competence and does not replace current care plans, local policies or mandatory training. Explain your genuine practice, report gaps honestly, and never learn scripted claims or create or backdate evidence.

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