Run the home
The recurring checks, with the evidence attached.
Most compliance in a children's home is not complicated — it is a list of things that have to happen again and again, each with a date and somebody's signature. What goes wrong is that the list lives in a spreadsheet nobody owns. Careframe holds the list, reminds the people on it, and keeps the evidence for each one against the item it proves.
See Run the home on the homepageA catalogue you start from, not a blank page.
Every home starts with a pre-built catalogue of recurring checks rather than an empty list. Each item carries how often it is due and what kind of item it is — something the law requires, something your own risk assessment requires, or something your policy requires — so a home can tell the difference between a duty and a habit.
Then you change it. Add your own items, retire the ones that do not apply to your home, and set the company-level catalogue once if you run several homes.
Due, due soon, overdue
Plain statuses and plain wording. A failed check says what to do next rather than turning red and stopping.
Reminders before, not after
A scheduled job emails the people responsible ahead of the date, so the first you hear of it is not the inspection.
Evidence on the item
Attach the certificate, the photo or the report to the check it proves — PDF, image, Word or Excel, up to 20 MB — so it is found by the thing it belongs to.
Sign-off, not a tick
Completing a check records who signed it off and when, and that history is kept.
Staff checks feed it automatically.
An expiring background check or training certificate on a staff file is a compliance problem, so it is treated as one: staff file expiries feed the home's compliance picture without anyone entering them twice.
The same records feed the Inspection ready page, which lists the gaps across care, compliance, rotas and staff files in one place.
One home, or all of them.
A Director or Responsible Individual sees compliance across every home side by side, worst first, along with an audit trail of who changed what. An area you have not been given at a particular home is not shown and is not counted — the cross-home view never shows you a record the per-home permissions would refuse.
What this does not do
- The percentage on the dashboard means "how many of your items are in date". It is not a compliance rating, a readiness score or a prediction of how an inspection will go.
- Careframe is not a legal service. It does not tell you what the law requires of your home, it does not cite regulations at you, and it does not certify you against anything. It evidences the work you did.
- The catalogue is a starting point written for UK children's homes generally. You are responsible for deciding what your home's list should contain.
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