How to use our 'Registered by' widget
What is the 'Registered by' widget?
The widget is a logo with some coding behind it that can be displayed on any website. Each registered care service has its own widget to connect directly to its own information pages on the Care Inspectorate website.
So, if you are a care service and you want to show your website visitors that you are registered with us, you can download the widget and display it on your website. When your website visitors click on the widget, a new window will open that displays the Care Inspectorate information page for your service. Your own webpage will still be open.
Who can use the widget?
Anyone can use the widget, but they must abide by our terms and conditions, which are at the bottom of this page.
How do I download the widget?
Go to the information page for your service, on this website.
Click on the ‘Care Inspectorate Registered Widget’ tab in the menu bar on the left.
Follow the instructions. You may need to ask your website administrator, hosting provider or website developer to help you.
Add the embed code to your website where you want it to appear. For example, in a footer, a sidebar and so on.
The widget code will work on your website straight away.
Troubleshooting
This is a simple and straightforward piece of coding and should not cause issues. If you do have difficulty, first contact your web administrator. If your web administrator is unable to resolve the issue, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Terms and conditions
You can use the widget:
- in relation to any care service registered by the Care Inspectorate.
You cannot:
- use it in any way that would deliberately mislead people
- modify it in any way
- use it any way that would bring the Care Inspectorate into disrepute
- sell it or sublicence it
- use it in any way that could intentionally damage or overburden the Care Inspectorate website
- put anything around the widget that implies that the Care Inspectorate endorses you or your service.
Other conditions of use
The widget is designed to be used in conjunction with the Care Inspectorate website. Accordingly, use of the widget is also governed by our website's core privacy notice.
Disclaimer of warranties
We make our best efforts to make sure the widget is always available and provides accurate information, but it is provided 'as is', with no warranties.
Limitation of liability
The Care Inspectorate disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of the widget.
You understand and agree that you access and/or use the widget at your own discretion and risk, and that you will be solely responsible for any damages to your computer system or loss of data that results from accessing or using the widget.
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Support for improvement
The Care Inspectorate’s link inspector arrangements for each local authority area serve six main purposes. These are:
- monitoring the performance and quality of social work services;
- monitoring the performance of the partnership’s public protection arrangements;
- identifying factors which are supporting social work services to deliver good or improved outcomes and any barriers;
- highlighting risks to the above and their potential impact;
- identifying good practice within social work service and disseminating these more widely;
- supporting partners efforts to build capacity for continuous improvement.
Following each joint inspection, the link inspector continues to work with the CPP with an appropriate level of focus on improvement activity recorded in the CPP’s action plan. Where necessary, they will provide support and challenge in agreed activities and/or signpost CPPs to appropriate sources of assistance. This may include support from other scrutiny bodies.
When a partnership’s performance in key areas of practice has been evaluated as either ‘weak’ or ‘unsatisfactory’, the Care Inspectorate and partners may conduct progress review inspection activity to provide assurance that effective action is being taken by the CPP to reduce risks and address areas of concern. In these circumstances the intention and timescale for follow-up scrutiny will be recorded in the published report.
Where the findings of the inspection identify significant concerns, the link inspector may have a more formal monitoring role to provide senior managers in the Care Inspectorate and scrutiny partners with assurance that appropriate action is being taken to address weaknesses.
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Sharing information with other inspection bodies
Scrutiny bodies work together through a shared risk assessment process within Local Area Networks (LAN) to identify and agree the key scrutiny risks in each of Scotland’s 32 council areas. Each LAN is responsible for sharing local information and intelligence between scrutiny bodies, carrying out risk assessments and for engaging productively with respective councils around scrutiny activity.
Inspection findings are shared with scrutiny partners and other relevant inspectorates for the purposes of contributing to this shared risk assessment process which is led by Audit Scotland.
The National Scrutiny Plan for local government is one of the key outputs from the shared risk assessment work.
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Staff survey
Inspectors use a survey to gather the views of all staff who work directly with children and young people at risk of harm, about the difference that services are making to their lives and how they are being helped to achieve positive outcomes. In addition to the staff survey, we will invite children and young people, as well as parents and carers, to complete surveys to gather their views about their experiences of services.
CPPs are asked to distribute the staff survey directly to their staff and the Care Inspectorate will provide a link to this at the briefing for partners about the inspection process. The survey takes around 15 - 20 minutes to complete and is aimed at those people who work with children at risk of harm and their families, including health visitors, school nurses, doctors, teachers, social workers, police officers, and staff working in the voluntary and independent sector.
Staff do not have to provide their name, just their current occupation/professional role and job type. Three weeks are allocated for its completion and the analysis of the results are subsequently shared with the CPP.
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Position statement
The Care Inspectorate’s Quality framework for children and young people in need of care and protection (QIF) is central to the development of the partnership’s joint self-evaluation. Community planning partners should familiarise themselves with the quality framework and the position statement guidance before they begin to develop their joint position statement.
The position statement may be presented in the format that the CPP finds most useful but should be no more than 5,000 words and links to supporting evidence should be clearly marked throughout the document. The use of bullet points may help eliminate the need for overly detailed description.
Using the four inspection statements as noted above as the basis for the position statement, community planning partners should seek to answer three reflective questions:
- How good are we now?
- How do we know?
- What do we plan to do next?
More information can be found in the position statement guidance and the quality framework.
The joint position statement should set out the main themes and learning. It should make sense as a standalone document and be succinct, focused and use evaluative language. Inspectors are keen to know about the impact of the CPP’s work on the safety and wellbeing of children and young people at risk of harm, and the difference that its work is making to their life chances.
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