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Later this year the CQC will be implementing a new regulatory approach. Based on a new single assessment framework, the framework includes a quality statement on environmental sustainability.

Through their regulatory approach, CQC inspectors may consider how providers have made efforts to become more environmentally sustainable.

The environmental sustainability quality statement, under well-led, will look at any negative impact of providers activities on the environment, how they are acting to reduce it and supporting people to do the same.

The term ‘carbon footprint’ refers to the total amount of greenhouse gas emitted by an organisation, individual, service or product.

This relates to:

·       Regulation 17: Good Governance

In addition to this, climate change adaptation will be assessed in the quality statement ‘safe environments’ and within ‘Governance, management and sustainability’. Within these quality statements steps taken to adapt to the effects of climate change will be looked at e.g. adverse weather plans.

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