Guides, templates and free resources that every provider needs
Written by our CQC compliance consultants from the applications we actually work on. No sign-up wall you have to fight, no drip campaign you can't escape. Tell us who you are, take what you need.


The Easy Guide to Registering with CQC
If you only read one thing on this page, read this. It walks the whole registration process from working out whether you're in scope to the day your certificate arrives.
- How to work out which regulated activities apply to you
- Every form CQC will ask for, and who completes each one
- What a registered manager actually has to prove
- The five mistakes that cause most rejections
- Realistic timescales, so you don't sign a lease too early
A guide can tell you what to do. It can't tell you whether you've done it right.
Everything on this page is genuinely free and genuinely useful. But reading a guide still leaves you deciding on your own whether your policies, your evidence and your answers are good enough. That judgement is the thing people actually get wrong, and it's the reason we exist.

What actually happens if you book
No slide deck, no pressure, and no forty minute pitch. Here's the whole thing.
You tell us what you're setting up
What the service is, where you've got to, and what's worrying you. That's usually enough for us to tell you which regulated activities you're looking at.
We show you the portal
The task list, the templates already loaded for your sector, and how the review and feedback works. You'll see quickly whether it suits how you work.
You get a straight answer
Rough timescale, what it would cost, and whether you need us at all. Plenty of people leave this call knowing they can do it themselves. We'd rather you knew.
Not sure which activities you need? That's the call to book.
Fifteen minutes will tell you what you need to register for, what the process looks like for your service, and roughly how long it will take. If you don’t need us, we’ll say so.