
Find out more about the brand new Z Cares App…
CQC Registration supporting documents, tools and support – special offer for new providers!
If you’re a care provider, I’m here to help whether you want regular or one-off support.
- How can I help you?
- Join the Z Cares Family – for regular support
- Mock Inspections and other one-off/annual services
- Service turnaround and crisis support
🖤 Discounts are always available for local services in the South / East / SE London and Dartford Area. 🖤
Upcoming Events

Kent Registered Managers Care Conference
Wednesday 8th October 2025
Clive Emson Conference Centre
Kent Showground
Detling
Maidstone
ME14 3JF
Care Roadshow Yorkshire
Tuesday 4th November 2025
Elland Road Stadium
Beeston
Leeds
LS11 0ES
I will be exhibiting at these events and demonstrating the new Z Cares App.
Always happy to give free advice if I can – “ask me anything”! There will be discounts on the day for services, subscriptions and family memberships.

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Latest
- Social Care in the News – July 2025Welcome to your monthly digest of the biggest stories from the social care world.
- Social Care in the News — June 2025Welcome to your monthly digest of the biggest stories from the social care world.
- Not-so spontaneous human combustionBack in the day one of the great “unsolved mysteries” was the “spontaneous combustion” of elderly folk. These days we know why they went on fire, yet this is still a neglected risk.
- Sleep, falls and behaviourDo your residents get up when they want, except on Wednesdays, when everyone is rudely awakened by the dustmen?
- Applicant Risk Assessment Decision RecordI’m going through the Z Cares archive and have found some old checklists and forms that you might find useful.
- Client File Audit FormI’m going through the Z Cares archive and have found some old checklists and forms that you might find useful.
- No Reply / Missing Persons Action FormI’m going through the Z Cares archive and have found some old checklists and forms that you might find useful.
- Prevention of Future Deaths Reports – June 2025Each month I review the most recent and share any learning and reminders that I think will be of value to providers.
- Seven ways in which care is very much like flying a planeI think running a good care service is very much like flying a plane. Hopefully, by the time I’ve talked you through my piloting principles, you’ll see why I think so.
- The “New Carer Test”When auditing and reviewing a person’s care plan and risk assessments, my overarching principle is always “The New Carer Test”.
- Care home fire safety – May 2025News relating to care home fire safety from May 2025.
- Care in the News – May 2025A roundup of general care related news from May 2025.