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The CQC Registration Roadmap: How to Register a Home Care Agency with CQC
A free, step by step guide to CQC registration for home care agencies in England. Learn the CQC registration requirements, the order to do things in, how long CQC registration takes and what it costs, from choosing your company name to receiving your decision. Written by Millicent Ntaisi and checked against CQC guidance in November 2026.
- Written by
- Millicent Ntaisi
- Length
- 44 pages
- Format
- PDF, 1.0 MB
- Updated
- November 2026
About this book
Registering a home care agency with the Care Quality Commission can feel like a maze. Most delays happen because the work is done in the wrong order, or because one document tells a different story from the rest.
This roadmap sets out the ten stages in the order the work really happens. It shows which stages you can run at the same time, why your DBS checks should start first, and what CQC expects to see before it will register you. Every rule was checked against CQC's own website on 1 November 2026, and each one names the page it came from.
What you will learn
- The ten stages from company name to registered provider, shown on one page
- What CQC asks for at each stage, with a tick list you can print
- Realistic timings and costs, using CQC's own figures where it gives them
- The mistakes we see most often, and how to avoid them
- What changed in 2025 and 2026, and what happens after you submit
- A master checklist and a plain English glossary
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