An ex-president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has expressed ‘surprise’ at the lack of volunteers to pilot Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections.
The watchdog was due last month to select five volunteer councils to pilot local authority assessments.
However, only three – Birmingham City Council, Lincolnshire CC and Nottingham City Council – put themselves forward despite the CQC’s director of adult social care Mary Cridge insisting ‘we aren’t as scary as people thought we were’.
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