CQC update – Manager Meeting June 2026
Below the CQC items from the Manager Meeting on June 17th 2026.
Further items will be added to this page as they become available.
LCAS CQC Slides RM Meeting June 2026
- CQC position statement on AI: Artificial intelligence in health and social care: CQC’s role, expectations and plans – Care Quality Commission
- CQC assessment priorities: Priorities for delivering more assessments and tackling aged ratings – Care Quality Commission
The new Care Association Alliance newsletter
You can read the first edition here:
https://the-settlement-sand.vercel.app
Guidance Engagement Exercise (Deadline: 30 June 2026) : FIRE SAFETY IN RESIDENTIAL CARE
Principles of Fire Safety Guide
Stakeholder Feedback- Guide to Fire Safety Measures for Persons with Duties – Residential Care
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) invites you and your organisation to comment on the Guide to Fire Safety Measures for Persons with Duties: Residential Care (attached pdf).
The current suite of premises specific guides (sometimes referred to as the “CLG guides”) is split into two parts. Part A covers what a fire risk assessment is and how one might go about it, and part B covers fire precautions relevant to the specific premises.
MHCLG is replacing part A of all the guides with a single overarching guide titled Guide to Fire Safety Measures for Persons with Duties: Principles of Fire Safety. This will provide guidance on general fire safety issues that are relevant across all premises types. Alongside this we are also producing a range of premises specific guides which will replace Part B of the existing guides.
The premises specific guides are supplementary to the Principles of Fire Safety guide. As such, they are not intended to be read in isolation and should be used alongside the Principles guide. You may therefore find them less comprehensive than the previous versions.
NOTE: The draft Principles of Fire Safety guide is attached for reference only. This has already been subject to stakeholder engagement, and we are not seeking further comments on it at this stage. It is provided to support cross referencing with the residential care guidance.
This is a DRAFT version ONLY and should not be considered government policy. It should not be used in a practical setting and is being shared for the purpose of commenting on the draft to check if the content is unclear, incorrect or could be improved.
If you require the documents in an alternative format, please let us know.
Statistics within the guide will be updated prior to publication.
The closing date for this engagement is 30th June 2026. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please send all responses to firesafetyguidance@communities.gov.uk
A response spreadsheet is attached. We ask that responses are submitted through this spreadsheet. To support analysis, we request one consolidated response per organisation where possible. We would welcome concise responses (around 150 words per comment).
Greyed-out text within guides represents content that is duplicated in other guides in this engagement exercise.
Please feel free to share this with any other relevant stakeholders within the residential care sector who may wish to contribute.
Your feedback and input are incredibly valuable in order to refine the guides for user’s needs ahead of publication, as such we thank you in advance for your time.
If you do not wish to be contacted further about Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government Fire Safety Order guidance, then let us know and we will remove you from our circulation list.
Kind Regards
Fire Safety Order Guidance Team
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government