Built for the way you are inspected
Whether you are inspected by CQC, Ofsted, CIW, the Care Inspectorate or RQIA, Loup speaks your regulator's language — from the key areas it reviews to the rating words it uses.
Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Single Assessment Framework
Areas Loup reviews against
- Safe
- Effective
- Caring
- Responsive
- Well-led
Rating words used: Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate
Ideal for domiciliary care, supported living and residential care. Feedback templates map each question to a key question.
Ofsted
Social Care Common Inspection Framework (SCCIF)
Areas Loup reviews against
- Overall experiences and progress of children and young people
- How well children and young people are helped and protected
- The effectiveness of leaders and managers
Rating words used: Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement to be good, Inadequate
For children's homes and supported accommodation. Loup switches its wording to "young people" throughout and includes a young-people-friendly feedback form.
Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
Inspection under the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016
Areas Loup reviews against
- Well-being
- Care and support
- Environment
- Leadership and management
Rating words used: Excellent, Good, Adequate, Poor
Set up around the RISCA themes used in Welsh inspection reports.
Care Inspectorate
Quality framework based on the Health and Social Care Standards
Areas Loup reviews against
- How well do we support people's wellbeing?
- How good is our leadership?
- How good is our staff team?
- How good is our setting?
- How well is our care and support planned?
Rating words used: Excellent, Very good, Good, Adequate, Weak, Unsatisfactory
Uses the six-point grading scale and the key questions from the quality framework.
RQIA
Inspection against the DHSSPS care standards
Areas Loup reviews against
- Is care safe?
- Is care effective?
- Is care compassionate?
- Is the service well led?
Rating words used: Meeting standards well, Meeting standards, Partly meeting standards, Not meeting standards
Built around RQIA's four domains.
Other or unregulated services
Not regulated, or regulated by someone else? Loup uses a general good-practice quality framework — Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led — so you still get a clear picture of your service.
You can change your regulator at any time in Settings.
On inspection day
Give your inspector secure, read-only access to exactly the evidence they need — for as long as they need it. They can't change anything, and you keep a full record of what they viewed. See how it works →
Loup is an independent company. We are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any regulator. Loup helps you organise evidence and prepare — your inspection outcome is always decided by your regulator.
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