Self-evaluation for improvement – your guide

We support improvement and we want to empower services to evaluate their own performance. This guide helps services across all care settings understand how they can do that. We believe that self-evaluation can be a powerful tool to identify what’s working well and to identify and support improvement.

We want all services to undertake self-evaluation. We see self evaluation as a process that the care service leads on and it is for you to determine the frequency and focus of your self-evaluation.

Self-evaluation is not undertaken for the benefit of the Care Inspectorate; it should be used by you to inform and understand where you need to target your efforts to support improvement.